Benicio del Toro and the Oscar Award

I must confess I’m tired of writing every year about my agreements and disagreements with the Oscar Awards. It involves too much skulduggery of formulas, propaganda and interests, while not leaving out the necessary quality and even excellence. <br /> Read More

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Cuban Film, Best Ever in Ibero-America

The Cuban Film Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968), directed by late Tomas Gutierrez Alea (Titon), ranks as best film in the history of Ibero-American cinema. Read More

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Madrid Mayor Attacks on Cuba Nixed

Two leading figures of Spanish left wing forces denounced here the lack of ethical and political authority of the Madrid government chairwoman, Esperanza Aguirre, to attack Cuba and its revolution. Read More

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Cuban musician Pablo Milanés and his record Regalo in a European tour

The Cuban musician Pablo Milanes, will sell in Spain his new record Regalo, from the 27th of January, have confirmed the Universal record house. Read More

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In Cuba: The Escorial de los Mares to settle in the Castillo de la Real Fuerza

After centuries of its wonderful mailing around the Havana harbour, the city was able to enjoy once again the passing of the Santisima Tirnidad on the banks of the port of Havana. Read More

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Cuba at Canary Islands 19th Oral Narration Festival

The living word, thanks to a direct communication among human beings, the magic universe of the troubadour and of the storyteller: millenary traditions take center stage again at the 19th Aguimes Oral Narration Festival, at Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, the oldest of the events dedicated to this artistic genre across Spain. Read More

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Cuba Will Participate in Tourism Fair of Madrid

Cuba will participate, along with another 14 Latin American and Caribbean nations, in the International Tourism Fair of Madrid (FITUR-2009) that begins next week in the Spanish capital. Read More

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A Canary owner’s debt keeps eight Cuban seamen confined at Morocco

Abandoned and desperate, without knowing what to do and whom to go to, even thinking about sending a letter to the Alawian Monarch the 6th  to ask for its mercy. That’s how things are for the eight Cuban sailors throughout a year on board the Alutrans ship a Panamanian flag vessel owned by a Canary shipowner and former president of the Port Authority at Las Palmas, Manuel Barreto Acuña. Read More

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Cuban writer Miguel Barnet on the Rómulo Gallegos Prize Jury

Cuban writer and ethnologist Miguel Barnet will be part of the panel of judges of the 16th International Rómulo Gallegos Novel Prize, made up by personalities from Latin American arts. Read More

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Cuba, Spain Held Talks on Human Rights

Delegations from Cuba and Spain held official talks on Friday in Havana, Cuba, during the third Encounter on Dialogue of Human Rights of the Bilateral Mechanism of Political Consultations of the two countries. Read More

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