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May 23, 20231 min read

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!

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...