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Oct

18

2024

Cuban Culture Day brings together the Cuban Embassy in the U.S.

With the same force, they sang 156 years later the redemptive hymn that Perucho Figueredo, mounted on his horse, made known as lyrics of the war march La Bayamesa.

It was in the city of Bayamo, for the first time “free from the foreign yoke, with a history that began as mamba and then became rebellious...” that the hymn was sung, said the young diplomat Gabriela Castillo.

A sublime mixture of the most deep-rooted roots, Cuban culture constitutes a moral trench that exalts the emancipating work of the homeland, she stressed.

Oct

17

2024

Essences of Cuba at the Ibero-American Literature Festival in the US

She, Gabriela Guerra, a resident in Mexico, and he, Vicente Amor, who lives in Tampa, spoke with the public attending the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington DC, to hear from their authors how their most recent “literary births” took place.

Guerra, winner of the 2016 Juan Rulfo Prize for her novel Bahía de Sal, spoke about Avándaro, a book she wrote during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, published last year, which she had the pleasure of presenting in February at the International Book Fair in Havana (Fillh).

Oct

16

2024

"Maisinicú, medio siglo después" closed the Cuban film festival in the U.S.

The feature film is a tribute to the five decades of the film El Hombre de Maisinicú (1973) by Manuel Pérez, a classic of Cuban cinema based on the story of State Security agent Alberto Delgado, murdered by counterrevolutionary gangs on April 29, 1964.

According to Lobaina in an interview with Prensa Latina in Washington DC, the filming project arose from “the affinity I have had for a long time with the film, even since I was a child, and also for having coincided fortuitously with the director Manuel Perez”.

Oct

15

2024

Cuban culture goes to Washington

The 1st Cuban Film Festival has been warmly welcome, featuring on its second night the film “Sisters of the Heart” (2021), a one of a kind and little-known story of the Oblates of Providence, a black Catholic order that started to engage in educational endeavors in 1829, in the United States, Cuba and other parts of the Americas.

A work by activist and filmmaker Gloria Rolando, the film captures the work done by the Oblates when they decided to establish schools and orphanages for poor black children in Haiti, Cuba, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York or Costa Rica.