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The International Festival of New Latin American Cinema is a fest of brotherhood, culture and hope, said the festival's president Alfredo Guevara at the opening ceremony of the 30th edition of the event Tuesday evening in the Karl Marx Theater in Havana.
Actor Benicio del Toro said that the premiere in Havana of the film Che, by American director Steven Soderberh, entailed a great deal of responsibility and emotion, since showing the movie to the people who knew Che Guevara so well, was like closing a cycle and writing a page for his own autobiography.
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This is the first glimpse at Steven Soderbergh's two-part biopic of Argentine doctor turned rebel leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, played by Benicio del Toro and due to be released in the UK in the new year.
HAVANA (Reuters) – "Che," the movie about Argentine Ernesto "Che" Guevara who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution, will be shown next month in Cuba, the director of Havana's New Latin American Film Festival said on Thursday.
The Cuban Casa de las Americas, a cultural institution founded by Haydee Santamaria, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2009 with the attendance of intellectuals and artists from Latin America and Europe.
Maestro Juan Blanco, a pioneer of electroacoustic music in Cuba and one of the most important promoters of this kind of music in Iberoamerica, died last week in Havana.
Cuban Dayron Robles, 110 meters hurdler Olympic Champion and world record holder (12,87 s) is one of the candidates to the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) world athlete of the year award.
To Be Faithful to the Cuban People is the Best Life that One Can Have
Interview by Fernando García, La Vanguardia newspaper, Spain
Silvio Rodríguez (Cuba, 1946) continues being a revolutionary singer. His commitment to socialism is without a doubt. But the author of Ojalá calls for changes in his government. Without haste, but without delays that put into danger what's won. The Cuban troubadour asks for an end to restrictions on travel and a modernization of the State.
Cuba won the Youth World Boxing Championship that concluded this weekend (Nov 3) in Guadalajara, Mexico, after four of its five finalists took gold medals on Saturday.
On Cuba's National Day of Culture, president of UNEAC (Union of Cuban writers and artists) Miguel Barnet wrote:
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