{"id":12285,"date":"2025-03-18T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=12285"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:43:20","slug":"president-diaz-canel-receives-hollywood-star-kevin-costner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/president-diaz-canel-receives-hollywood-star-kevin-costner\/","title":{"rendered":"President D\u00edaz-Canel receives Hollywood star Kevin Costner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cuba_kcostner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cuba_kcostner.png 511w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cuba_kcostner-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, received the Hollywood star Kevin Costner. The American actor, director, and producer is visiting the Caribbean nation to explore underwater archaeology, the Presidency of the Republic announced this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a pleasure to meet you and your visit to Cuba is a source of enormous satisfaction. You are greatly admired by the Cuban people, who have closely followed your stay in our country these past few days,&#8221; the President stated during the meeting at the Palace of the Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Costner expressed that he feels very good in Cuba and that he had dreamed of this project for some time.<\/p>\n<p>The American actor referred to his special friendship with Cuban Alejandro Mirabal, an underwater archaeologist and prominent researcher. &#8220;I have studied the Caribbean a lot,&#8221; he noted. He commented that he was impressed by the Museo del Castillo de la Real Fuerza, both for its artifacts and its architecture.<\/p>\n<p>During the pleasant conversation, the head of state invited him to visit Santiago de Cuba, whose bay holds a significant underwater heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Costner previously visited Cuba in April 2001, where he met with the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, with whom he had a lively conversation, according to the press at the time. On that occasion, he traveled to Havana to present the film &#8220;13 Days,&#8221; about the October 1962 Crisis, in which he played the leading role of Kenneth O&#8217;Donnell, John F. Kennedy&#8217;s collaborator at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds in 2015, the artist expressed his joy at the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, received the Hollywood star Kevin Costner. The American actor, director, and producer is visiting the Caribbean nation to explore underwater archaeology, the Presidency of the Republic announced this Monday. &#8220;It is a pleasure to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-internacionales","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12285\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}