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Yasiel Puig open to playing for Cuba

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig said Monday that he could see himself playing for Cuba, if defectors were allowed to play for the national team one day. Read More

Objective truths and dreams

I was far from imagining that my life would be prolonged another seven years. Only in this way did I have the privilege of reading and studying many things which I should have learned before. I think that the new discoveries have surprised everyone. Read More

Cuba’s ‘revolutionary icon’ Fidel Castro turns 87

Fidel Castro held power from 1959, when he toppled US-backed Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, to 2006 when he handed the reins of power to his brother Raul. Though he remained president in name for two more years. Read More

Cuban jazz legend Arturo Sandoval awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

Cuban-born jazz legend Arturo Sandoval was named by President Barack Obama Thursday as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Read More

Radio Havana Cuba Founder Granted National Radio Award

Radio Havana Cuba founder and a worker for over 50 years, Ignacio Lorenzo Canel, has been distinguished with the National Radio Award for a Lifetime. Read More

Cuba Honors Luis Carbonell, Aquarellist of the Antillean Poetry

Artists, public and even the President of Cuba, Raul Castro, paid tribute to the legendary poetry reciter Luis Carbonell on his 90th birthday Read More

Raul Castro turned 82 in reminder of aging leadership

Cuba's Raul Castro is marking his 82nd birthday in another reminder that time is running out for the aging generation that has led the country since the 1959 revolution. Read More

Paco de Lucía Returns to Cuba After 26 Years

The legendary Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucia returns to Cuba with flamenco concert after 26 years without appearing in this country, today announced the maestro Leo Brower. Read More

Gloria Estefan and Berta Soler will speak at Cuba's Independence Day

Singer Gloria Estefan is expected to speak at a Miami event to commemorate Cuba's Independence Day. Read More

Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library

While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life. Read More

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