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Álvaro Lenier Mesa (born Cuba, Güines), better known by his stage name Lenier, is a Cuban singer. [1] [2] In 2022 he was awarded the Latin Grammy Awards in the categories "Best Salsa Album" and "Best Tropical Song." [3] [4] In 2023, he participated in 3 songs on the third studio album, Leyenda Viva, by American rapper 6ix9ine.
Engineer. Signature. Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (Latin American Spanish: [miˈɣel ˈdi.as kaˈnel]; born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician and engineer. He has served as the 8th First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2021 and as the 17th President of Cuba since 2019. In his capacity as First Secretary he is the most powerful ...
Cuba portal. v. t. e. The U.S. government first banned the sale of weaponry to Cuba via an arms embargo on March 14, 1958, during the U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista regime. The Cuban Revolution saw to the nationalization of Cuba, high U.S. imports taxes, and forfeiture of U.S.-owned economic assets, including oil refineries, without compensation.
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century. Cruz rose to fame in Cuba during the 1950s as a singer of guarachas, earning the nickname " La Guarachera de Cuba ". In the following decades, she became ...
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara (born December 2, 1987) is a Cuban performance artist and dissident, known for his public performances that openly criticize the Cuban government and its policies. [1] [2] A self-taught artist, Alcántara lives in the El Cerro neighborhood of Havana. [3] Since 2018 Alcántara has been arrested dozens of times [4 ...
Plot. Le Bazar de la Charité ( The Bonfire of Destiny) begins with the depiction of a true event, the fire at the Bazar de la Charité in Paris, 4 May 1897, in which 126 people died. Planning to visit the bazaar is Adrienne de Lenverpré ( Audrey Fleurot ), an upper-class woman who seeks to escape from her marriage to her tyrant husband, Marc ...
Taíno genocide Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Siege of Havana (1762) Captaincy General of Cuba (1607–1898) Lopez Expedition (1850–1851) Ten Years' War (1868–1878) Little War (1879–1880) Cuban War of Independence (1895–1898) Treaty of Paris (1898) US Military Government (1898–1902) Platt Amendment (1901) Republic of Cuba (1902–1959) Cuban Pacification (1906–1909) Negro ...
Bazaar. A bazaar[a] or souk[b] is a marketplace consisting of multiple small stalls or shops, [1] especially in the Middle East, [2][1] the Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and South Asia. [1] They are traditionally located in vaulted or covered streets that have doors on each end and served as a city's central marketplace.