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Los Frikis is a 2024 American drama film based on true events, set in Cuba in the 1990s. It is written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, who also wrote and directed The Peanut Butter Falcon .
Updated December 19, 2024 at 9:57 AM. ... but it's based on true events. In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the ...
Secretary Mayorkas delivered speech at ‘Cuban Day’ event hosted at the White House. Nora Gámez Torres. April 18, 2024 at 11:11 AM ... What to know about the devastation from the Los Angeles ...
1990: The first L.A. Fiesta Broadway drew a crowd that was estimated at 500,000. This was the first large-scale attempt to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Los Angeles. A partnership of city officials, KMEX-TV and downtown merchants paid for the $1 million festival, which was taped and telecast over the Spanish-language Univision Network.
The festival is one of the largest in the world, and over one million visitors attend the Calle Ocho event. Showcasing Latin American and Caribbean culture, Calle Ocho is the largest Hispanic street festival in the United States. Started by Cuban exiles in 1978, the festival attracts over a million people a year.
Albareda said the success of last year's festival, with both artists and fans flooding social media with posts about the event, made it much easier to book performers this year. “We were getting texts from agents while the festival was going on saying, ‘Hey, I don’t know what you guys did, but my artists are texting me, and everybody is ...
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [ 12 ] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings , is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence.
In 2021, Chibás created a feature-length documentary film called A Cuban Documemory. She won the Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Cuban American International Film Festival. [3] Her feature screenplay 72 is in development. It was selected for Sundance’s feature film development track [31] and as an Athena Film Festival Awards finalist. [32 ...