Cuba’s famed jazz pianist Chucho Valdes won his fifth Grammy Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles, California. Valdes and his band The Afro-Cuban Messengers competed in the Best Latin Jazz Album category with the CD Chucho’s Steps.
Read MoreA perverse tradition in the political culture of the island’s leadership (which has permeated the whole of Cuban society) is that the achievements are privatized and the costs socialized.
Read More“Being part of the Television Ballet I went on many international tours, some for only a few weeks and others — like with the Tihany Circus — for a year and a half.”
Read MoreChucho Valdes, Alex Cuba and Edesio Alejandro are the three Cuban artists nominated for Grammy Awards to be announced at the gala ceremony on Sunday, February 13 in Los Angeles, California.
Read MoreThe Cuban baseball league continues this weekend with a full schedule of play. Cienfuegos remains on top of the Western Division with Pinar del Rio three games back. In the East, Ciego de Avila has a slim one game lead over Granma with Guantanamo only 1.5 games out of first.
Read MoreThe more than 8,000 computers in the University of Computer Science (UCI) will soon migrate to the open-code Nova Linux 3.0 operating system, with which it will become the first educational center in Cuba to begin using exclusively free software, Abel Firvida, chief of the Nova project, affirmed.
Read MoreUruguayan writer living in Cuba Daniel Chavarría received the 2010 National Literature Prize at the International Book Fair of Cuba, being held in this capital. Chavarría, 77, is “one of those beings born to make others happy, because although I am convinced that Chavarría will perhaps not be the greatest of Cuban novelists, he is the most congenial of all,” writer Eduardo Heras León affirmed.
Read MoreThe Cuban government will soon release six political prisoners, out of which four accepted the proposal to leave the country and travel to Spain, according to the agreement with the Catholic Church and the European nation, Orlando Márquez, spokesman for the Havana Archbishopric, announced. With this group the number of prisoners released since 2010 amounts to 64.
Read MoreThe reaction across Egypt was explosive. The anger that had been simmering for decades and boiled over during 18 consecutive days of protests, was transformed by a single uttered sentence into pure jubilation.
Read MoreEduardo Diaz is the latest in a stream of political prisoners to be released in Cuba, after a major round up of 75 “dissidents” alleged to be on the US payroll back in 2003.
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