More than 4,000 irregular migrants returned to Cuba this year
Ministry of the Interior reports that, with the most recent flight, there have been 90 return operations from different countries so far this year.
Ministry of the Interior reports that, with the most recent flight, there have been 90 return operations from different countries so far this year.
Since 2022, the material with which X Alfonso pays tribute to the musical legacy of his family has not stopped making news.
The presence of this Cuban collection in the international Memory of the World register is, for Anne Lemaistre, recognition of the “great creative originality found in these posters, the graphic beauty and the communicative effectiveness of these documents.”
The director, choreographer, teacher and entrepreneur, one of the most beloved artists on the island, talks with OnCuba in the context of her most recent premiere, Habana Fénix, and the history of her Company.
The Day of the Cuban Son is celebrated on May 8 as a tribute to a vocal and instrumental genre of great popularity and influence on and off the island. Regarding the date, OnCuba investigates its origins.
Regarding the success of “Los vecinos de arriba,” still on the program, we talked with the actor and director, about this staging and about his career.
The island is already the oldest country in Latin America and the Caribbean. Two out of every ten Cubans (21.9%) are at least 60 years old, and by 2030 that group will be 30% of the population.
The book “El cine según García Márquez” by critic, journalist and professor Joel del Río will be presented again as part of the 31st International Book Fair.
Few artists have been able to go through so many stages successfully in theatre, radio, television, cabaret, opera, light opera and cinema.
In the first month of 2023, around 246,000 travelers arrived on the island, “a very significant increase compared to the 86,424 who entered in January last year,” according to official media.
A century after her birth, on January 21, 1923, we speak of Lola Flores in the present, like of Celia Cruz. They were great friends and queens of the stage. Their legacy continues.
Its greatest virtue is the shift in official U.S. thinking to recognize the need to regulate the labor mobility that actually exists, but the supply is very limited.
A handful of late-night finds on Havana’s Malecón.
The dynamic symphony between waves and rocks, together with the city noises, are the “background” for music of all genres and for all listeners.
In addition to his extensive and magnificent musical work, Pablo was a consecrated promoter and cultural agent.
“Maestro, how are you. I have followed your footsteps thanks to Drexler and I am amazed at what you do. I wanted to know if for some reason you would pass through Miami in the future. Or where your base is, to meet you one day and be able to see the possibility of taking a course on décimas. A strong hug.” This was the first message from Juanes that I received, via Instagram, in May 2019. Imagine my surprise. Who doesn’t know Juanes? The Colombian artist who accumulates the splendid number of 25 Grammy awards and whose success transcends the borders of the Spanish language. (He has fan groups in Germany, Poland, France, Australia, etc.). As they say in Spain, I went crazy. Juanes wanted to take a course with me! Illustrious students I already had a beautiful portfolio of illustrious students within the world of song (Drexler, Rozalén, Zenet, Ruibal, Vicky Gastelo, Gema Hernández, Nano Stern, Pala, Marta Gómez, Pedro Pastor, Mr. Kilombo and many others; by the way, only a few Cubans: only Gerardo Alfonso many years ago and recently Amanda Cepero), but Juanes arrived, as Drexler would say, “from another galaxy.” And my response was immediate:...
Interview about the album “Celia, Cuba te da las gracias”.
Only racial prejudice, political cowardice and ignorance continue to evade the mechanisms of that great social machinery that is racism, beyond those who reject or reproduce it.
Although still very far from the levels of the so-called “thaw” of the Barack Obama administration, in recent times there have been some gestures and signs in both directions, according to experts.
What happens in “Blonde” is that Dominik’s gaze shifted from presenting Marilyn Monroe as a victim of a patriarchal film industry, which turned her into an object and a product, to a victimized woman.
Interview with the winner of the 2nd Open Scene Playwriting Contest (United States) with the monologue “La Cantante vuelve” inspired by voices from exile.
In the first three months of 2022, the construction of hotels, as well as other aspects related to tourism, accounted for 35% of total investments, according to data from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI).
“I can conduct Stravinsky or play Copland, but I dance salsa. For Cubans, dancing is fundamental, it is part of the daily diet,” she tells journalist Jorge Mederos, remembering the nights of her adolescence at La Tropical, with live bands.
The well-known “girlfriend of feeling” believes that “the United States does not care about Cuba at all” and that “some of the ideas in Cuba that no longer work should change, but what harms us the most is the blockade.”
Of those 62 approved businesses, 56 are already in operation and more than a billion dollars of the investment amount have already been executed.
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