Juanamaria Cordones Cook received this week from Luis Morlote, president of Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), the Dulce Maria Loynaz International Award, granted by the organization at the proposal of its Writers Association and the Jose Antonio Aponte Commission
april 6, 2023@ 09:04:16 | Pedro de la Hoz
April 16, 1961, Fidel made explicit the socialist nature of the Revolution, in the wake of the first U.S. air attack prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion. In 1991, he stated, "We chose socialism because it is a just system, a much more humane system," and Cubans today are committed to those words
april 16, 2020@ 12:04:03 | Pedro de la Hoz
Havana D’ Primera's Alexander Abreu - composer, singer, trumpet player and band leader - talks about the group's new CD
july 19, 2016@ 14:07:13 | Pedro de la Hoz
Renowned writer Serafín Quiñones (Tato), known for his contribution to the study and promotion of African legacy in Cuban culture, died yesterday in Havana, at 77 years of age
january 13, 2020@ 14:01:53 | Pedro de la Hoz
More than 200 academics and intellectuals have endorsed an open letter to the Secretariat of the Latin American Studies Association in response to this body’s questioning of Cuba’s record in protecting human rights
june 10, 2021@ 09:06:59 | Pedro de la Hoz
During a leadership meeting of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists, problems identified during the group’s IX Congress regarding implementation of the nation’s cultural policy were addressed
october 7, 2019@ 15:10:12 | Pedro de la Hoz y Alexis Triana
"Fidel is Fidel," Raul said in his day, and so he will be, with the same rare talent, noted by an Algerian friend, to travel into the future, and return to tell the story
august 13, 2021@ 09:08:38 | Pedro de la Hoz
The decades he lived far away, first in Sweden and later in Spain, never made Bebo Valdés less ours, or stopped him from promoting Cuban music
october 16, 2018@ 12:10:55 | Pedro de la Hoz
XIII HAVANA BIENNIAL
The renowned French artist JR is participating in the XIII Biennial of Havana with his thought-provoking giant photographs
april 22, 2019@ 17:04:03 | Pedro de la Hoz
After announcing plans to reinforce hostile U.S. policy toward Cuba, the U.S. President should recognize the failure of his political turn-about, and that so many people can't be wrong, if he takes into consideration the condemnations generated by his reactionary statements, on the island and beyond
june 29, 2017@ 12:06:52 | Pedro de la Hoz