Venez, Cuba, Brazil win sports poll

Venezuelan Johan Santana, Cuban Zulia Calatayud and Brazilian volleyball players won Prensa Latinas survey on the best Latin American and Caribbean sportspeople in 2006. The US pitcher Santana, Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell and Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho Gaucho won first prizes of this annual survey. Read More

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Cuban film for Mexican Award

The film "Paginas del Diario de Mauricio" by Cuban filmmaker Manuel Perez may win the Ariel Prize, annually conferred by the Mexican Film Academy to the best Ibero American production, related sources confirmed. Read More

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Presenting homage disc Con el permiso de Bola

Cuban musicians Francisco Céspedes and Gonzalo Rubalcaba presented Wednesday evening , Dec 6, in Mexico City the disc Con el permiso de Bola they themselves co-produced. The phonogram is made in homage to the great musician Ignacio Jacinto Villa, Bola de Nieve (1911-1971), born in Guanabacoa, Havana and died in Mexico FD, while en route to Lima (Peru), where he would have several performances. Read More

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