Caracas - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lamented the death of Cuban intellectual Roberto Fernandez Retamar, who directed the House of the Americas for decades, a key institution in the continent.

Santiago de Cuba - The concert by singer Waldo Mendoza and the Uruguayan Youth Symphony Orchestra completed the fifth day of the 39th International Caribbean Festival, which began in this Cuban city on July 3 with the participation of about 30 countries.

Havana - Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Wednesday extolled the legacy of the intellectual and researcher Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969), whose work was acknowledged here as Cultural Heritage of the Nation.

Malawi Capote González, actress and director of the Los Cuenteros Theater Company of San Antonio de los Baños, returned from the IX Congress of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba UNEAC, with new and accurate assignments.

Researcher Reveca Figueredo and the Mausoleum to the Martyrs of Artemisa received the Emilio Bacardí Moreau diploma, national recognition for preserving and spreading our history, on the occasion of celebrating in the Province the Historian´s day.

Santiago de Cuba - With a strong folkloric show, the 39th International Caribbean Festival began the eve at the Heredia Theater in Santiago de Cuba, which will be run until July 9, dedicated to the Uruguayan culture.