FACE Excellence Awards 2023 Photo Gallery
We're excited to announce that the photo gallery from the recent Cuban Exiles Excellence Awards is now live on our website, facecuba.org!
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May 18, 20232 min read
Luis de la Aguilera 2023 FACE Excellence Award Recipient
Luis de la Aguilera is President, CEO, and Director of U.S. Century Bank where he assumed leadership in 2015 directing the development...
May 16, 20233 min read
Lourdes Lopez, 2023 FACE Excellence Award Receipient for Performing Arts - Ballet
Lourdes López is the director of the Miami City Ballet. At age 16 she had joined the corps de ballet at the New York City Ballet where...
Apr 24, 20233 min read
Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz, 2023 Excellence Award Honorees
Carlos M. de la Cruz, Sr. is Chairman of CC1 Companies, which includes Coca-Cola Puerto Rico Bottlers, CC1 Beer Distributors, Coca-Cola...
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Cesar Conde, 2023 Excellence Award Honoree
César Conde, son of a Peruvian father, César A. Conde, M.D. and a Cuban mother, María Conde. César was born in New York City growing up...
Mar 13, 20231 min read
La raíz del Miami Film Festival - Nat Chediak
Nat Chediak, FACE Excellence Award Honoree in Film (1998), is featured as the roots of the Miami Film Festival in this piece by CNN en...
Mar 7, 20231 min read
Miami Film Festival 2023: Three Documentaries at Miami Film Festival Delve Into Cuba’s Voices
Three films at the 40th-annual Miami Film Festival, opening Friday, March 3, and continuing through Sunday, March 12.
Mar 2, 20231 min read
In Memoriam: Esperanza Bravo de Varona, who helped found the Cuban Heritage Collection, passes away
From all of us at FACE: In Memoriam: Esperanza Bravo de Varona, a key figure in the preservation of Cuban culture and history, has passed...
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Facecuba.org is now selling the book "Cubans: An Epic Journey" on their online store.
In case you missed it, Facecuba.org is now selling the book "Cubans: An Epic Journey" on their online store. This incredible book is a...
Jan 19, 20231 min read
Gloria Estefan becomes first Hispanic female inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Gloria Estefan on becoming the first Hispanic woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame: “Every song comes differently”
Jan 3, 20231 min read
Celia Cruz in the top 200 Greatest Singers of All Time from Rolling Stone Magazine
BY ROLLING STONE La Guarachera de Cuba, Celia Cruz, places number 18 in the top 200 in between Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. "You can...
Dec 5, 20221 min read
Miami Beach public votes to acquire installation by Cuban artist Juana Valdés from Art Basel fair
Gabriella Angeleti originally published on TheArtNewsPaper.com The city of Miami Beach has voted to acquire a work by the Cuban artist...
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Cuban Yordan Álvarez sends a home run to the moon and the Astros are champions
Yordan Álvarez of the Houston Astros celebrates after hitting a three-run home run in Game 6 of the World Series against Philadelphia.
Aug 18, 20221 min read
Piquero tapped by Biden administration to head Bureau of Justice Statistics
By News@TheU Alex Piquero, a noted criminologist and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology, has been named director of the...
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Nestor Cortés Jr. "Hialeah Kid" Wears Cuban Flag on Glove for 2022 MLB All Star Game
Cortés was born in Surgidero de Batabanó, Cuba. His father won the visa lottery when he was seven months old, and they relocated to the...
Jul 2, 20223 min read
FACE Announces 2022-2023 New Chairman, Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón
“We are very pleased that Dr. Padrón, a long-time member of FACE, will assume this responsibility. I am sure that as the great civic leader
Jul 1, 20221 min read
Bigger than Mariel: 140,000 Cubans have arrived at U.S. borders since October
BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES The number of Cubans fleeing poverty and oppression on the island surpassed the Mariel exodus of 1980, as U.S....
May 18, 20221 min read
In Memoriam, Gus Machado, South Florida Car Dealer Magnate
A legendary name in the world of car dealerships in South Florida died on May 17, 2022. Gus Machado, who owned several dealerships across...
May 9, 20222 min read
Cuban American Millennial, Marcus Bach-Armas Elected to Miami-Dade Bench
Armas, whose mother (Mercedes) was a Miami-Dade County Court judge, will transition into public service after more than 12 years in the...
May 2, 20221 min read
FACE Podcast Cuban Women Making History with Sandra Gonzalez-Levy
This week we caught up with Sandra Gonzalez-Levy, Senior VP at Florida International University and a past chair at Facts About Cuban...
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