Cubans of the Year 2022, the selection of personalities from Diario de Cuba

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Miami, December 27, 2022.

The Diario de Cuba chooses the most notable figures of the year among which ends Dr. Pablo Odeley Puente Fumero

The prestigious Diario de Cuba website published the list of Cubans for the year 2022, taking into account significant contributions to democracy, education, culture, among others. To see the full list, access this link. The most prominent figures are mentioned below.

Pablo Odeley Puente Fumero
Cuban-American doctor Pablo Odeley Puente Fumero, was recently selected by the Global Summits Institute (GSI) as one of the 100 best doctors in the world. This list serves as a reference, on occasions, to important publications, such as Forbes magazine. He has been recognized in the Community of Madrid for his help to refugees from the war in Ukraine. Part of important scientific research groups, it is also worth noting his constant help to Cuban émigrés.

Marisela Alfonso Madrigal and Yunior Morales
The announcers Marisela Alfonso Madrigal and Yunior Morales have been very active this year on social networks “criticizing” the Cuban government.

Alexander Alonso
Filmmaker Alejandro Alonso has become one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Cuban independent cinema. his short film Abyssal (2021), won the Coral Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana.

Angela Alvarez
At 95 years of age, Álvarez won the Latin Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, for his debut album, which bears his name. He thus became the longest-serving person to have won a Latin Grammy.

Jose Luis Aparicio
The Cuban filmmaker and critic José Luis Aparicio closed an exceptional year after his fiction short film Tundra received praise from numerous specialized publications and was screened in various film competitions such as the New York Independent Film Festival, where it won the Best Narrative Short Film Award.

Ana de Armas
If there is a name that has resounded strongly in Hollywood this year, it has been that of the actress Ana de Armas. The Cuban received a nomination for the Golden Globes, before the Oscars, for her interpretation of Marilyn Monroe in Blondea film that has not left anyone indifferent.

Ada Ferrer
The Cuban historian and academic won this year the Pulitzer Prize in the History category, for her work Cuba: An American History (Scribner, New York, 2022). Ferrer’s book also received the award in the same category at the Daily Book Festival LA Timesin Los Angeles.

Also on the Diario de Cuba list are: Yailé Caballero Mota, Amelia Calzadilla, Feminist Collectives, Cobijo and Masiel Rubio, Cuban Prisoners Defenders, Relatives of 9/11 prisoners, INSTAR and Tania Bruguera, Carlos Lechuga, Tania León, Lenier Mesa, Aymée Nuviola and Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Opponents in prison, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Maykel “Osorbo” and the San Isidro Movement, Independent Journalism, Anamely Ramos, Omara Ruiz Urquiola and Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, Norges Rodríguez and the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, Pedro Albert Sanchez, Leoni Torres, Chanel Terrero.

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