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Presented in Cuba: A Book on Graphic Humor

The openning in the Francisco Vázquez gallery of the exhibition Quijotazos, will have to be remembered as a moment filled with reflexive humor in Juventud Rebelde. Read More

Cuban Director Octavio Cortazar Passed Away

Cuban director Octavio Cortazar, maker of the documentary "Por primera vez," and the feature fiction film "El brigadista" died suddenly at the age of 72 in Spain, while he was teaching a course in film production. Read More

The writer, poet, essayist and journalist Manuel Rivas brought two main stories to Cuba.

The writer, poet, essayist and journalist Manuel Rivas (La Coruña, 1957) brought two main stories to Cuba. One, with a strong Galician feeling in his veins and the other a symbolic novel, El lápiz del carpintero (The pencil of the carpenter), about the Spanish Civil War, but with more lyricism than harshness. Read More

Shared Histories: Cuba and Galician

It was in Cuba that the Galician anthem was first heard in public, specifically at the Gran Teatro de la Habana theatre in 1907. Its definitive lyrics were published 17 years earlier in Lugo and in the Cuban capital. Read More

Spanish flamenco singer Diego Jiménez Salazar, worldwide known as Cigala, keeps singing Cuban "sones".

Spanish flamenco singer Diego Jiménez Salazar, worldwide known as Cigala, featured late last year his show Dos Lágrimas (Two Tears), at the Maestranza Theater of Seville. Read More

A cultural hand to hand: Spain and Cuba

After the publication of the call for the I Cuban - Spain Cultural Day was held, some days ago, the first meeting between executives from both sides, who agreed on the actions and agreements to take in the wide spectrum of the solidarity exchange between the two nations. Read More

Cuban singer songwriter Eliades Ochoa paid tribute in Galicia

Cuban singer songwriter Eliades Ochoa paid tribute in Galicia to the musicians who accompanied him a decade ago in the unforgettable experience that was the CD Buena Vista Social Club. Read More

Cuban political prisoners arrive to Spain

An elderly man rests in front of a poster of Cuba's ailing president Fidel Castro in Havana on February 15. Four Cuban political prisoners freed by Havana arrived in Spain on Sunday, a Spain-based Cuban dissident told Read More

Cuba was set to release four political prisoners on the condition that they leave immediately.

In a move that human-rights activists condemned as ''forced exile,'' four Cuban dissidents jailed since a harsh crackdown five years ago will be freed and sent to Spain with their families. Read More

International Book Fair 2008 in Cuba this Open One

With Raúl Castro, first vice president of the Council of State and Ministers, the 17th International Book Fair was opened, to continue through next February 24 in the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress in Havana. Read More

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