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Cuba’s Jazz Plaza festival starts to reveal line up

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/11/2025

The organizers of Cuba’s 41st International Jazz Plaza Festival, to be held from January 25…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba defends cultural rights and denounces blockade at the UN

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/09/2025

During her speech, Bonet denounced the effects of the prolonged economic, commercial and financial blockade…

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  • News from Cuba

Damage to the culture sector by the US blockade against Cuba amounts to 195 million dollars in 2024

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/09/202518/09/2025

The blockade against Cuba is the longest-lasting and most comprehensive and complex system of unilateral…

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  • Cuban Dance

The Ayagba will continue to reign

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/09/202518/09/2025

The passing of Cuban dancer Zenaida Armenteros not only leaves the legacy of her art,…

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  • Cuban Film

Revolution, cinema and culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 06/08/202518/09/2025

The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) was created on August 6, 1959.…

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  • Cuban Music

Ibrahim Ferrer: Bolero singer and sonero

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/08/202518/09/2025

By Grisel Chirino Martínez for Radio Cadena Habana Music marked Ibrahim Ferrer from the very…

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  • News from Cuba

The Sound of Santiago de Cuba Carnival

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/07/202519/09/2025

It’s July, it’s Santiago de Cuba. With the highest mountains on the island as a…

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  • News from Cuba

Cubadisco 2025 awards + videos

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/06/202522/07/2025

Cubadisco 2025 presented its awards this May to the best productions of the Cuban music…

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  • Cuban Music

Interview with Cuban singer songwriter Silvio Rodríguez: “I am from a marginalized country persecuted for being rebellious”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 02/06/202506/06/2025

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio is set to return to Chile to perform later this year. In…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba wins World Travel Award for the Caribbean’s Best Cultural Destination

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/12/202422/07/2025

The World Travel Awards named Cuba the Caribbean’s Best Cultural Destination this year 2024 — beating other islands like…

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  • Interviews

Cuban cinema: return to utopias

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 03/11/2024

In conversation with Alexis Triana president of ICAIC Through 2024 the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic…

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  • Cuban Art

XV Havana Biennial: “Let art intersect and build bridges of connection”

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/10/202422/07/2025

“Beyond all the differences, there is a space of knowledge, expectations and preferences that most…

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  • News from Cuba

Five billion dollars of damage in one year due to the US blockade

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/202419/09/2025

More than five billion dollars is the extent of the damage estimated of the US…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba celebrates National Day of Culture 20 October

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/10/202408/05/2025

In Cuba celebrations for the national Day of Cuban Culture begins 10 October and extends…

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  • News from Cuba

Cuba’s cultural associations reject glorification of colonialism

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 12/10/202429/10/2024

The Casa de las Americas cultural institution, the Office of the Jose Martí Program and…

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