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A goodbye to Eugenio Hernández Espinosa: The older brother of Cuban playwrights

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Farewell words to Eugenio Hernández Espinosa, pronounced this October 21 at the Bertolt Brecht Cultural Center. The great dramaturgical voice of our generation was established in the professional theatrical work since the premiere of that classic modern tragedy that is “María Antonia”, which moved us hundreds of spectators who, again and again, went to the Mella Theater to witnessing that show magnificently directed by the great actor and director that was Roberto Blanco and that Hilda Oates, Samuel Claxton, Miguel Benavides and Isaura Mendoza, among other performers,

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Hugo Rius, José Martí National Prize for Journalism, passed away

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Hugo Rius Blein, José Martí National Prize for Journalism 2008 for his life’s work, passed away on this day. A contributor to Cubadebate and a journalist for the Prensa Latina agency, he also served as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Havana. He began his professional work in 1962 at the Prensa Latina agency. He was a correspondent for this agency in various countries in Africa and the Middle East.