Special Reports


 The brothers Nayin and Yamal were killed during a bombing. Their story is told from fiction, but it does not hurt the reality it denounces: children in the horrors of war. With the Bombas de Arena project, Keiter Castillo applied to the Cuban Film Development Fund and won the production benefits of the third call, in 2021.

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At the doors of an operating room, time passes slowly. Even in front of the nephrology center of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech clinical-surgical hospital, the scene has an astonishment that puts one on alert. From a comfortable sofa you can see the nurses in the room preparing the medical records and talking about the order and cleanliness of the medications, a daughter helping her father to support himself with a cane and three patients waiting in the chairs for their doctor to arrive from the handover of the guard... the residents begin to review documents and only one voice rises above the others: “get ready for bed 2.”

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 Yaíma Sáez will offer a concert with the Confluencias Duo, on February 3rd at the Teatro Principal, within the context of the Camagüey's Culture Week. She tells Adelante that she is about to present Twelve Jewels, her fourth album with songs by Roberto Valera.

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The third gala of the Camagua International Folk Dance Festival gave the moment to the solemn public event to present the 2023 National Dance Award in this city to the dancer, teacher and choreographer José Antonio Chávez Guetton.

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The writer Niurki Pérez García has spent her life making books. She makes them how she would like to see them published. She has also invented them as teaching materials to educate her daughter.


For those of us who at some point find healing hands in the corridors inside the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Teaching Clinical Surgical Military Hospital, in this city, there is always the memory of that mixture of white and green colors that is not found in others health institutions. Is this a place for the military or for doctors, for soldiers or for the people? Those who come to its headquarters in the Garrido neighborhood for the first time wonder. At first it is enigmatic, but from there you come out with certainty.


When she, very young, got sick and was treated in Havana as a demonstration in a Medicine class, Nieves Atrio knew: she would be a doctor. She was in the 1950s and her father told her that only “elite” young people studied this. On the contrary, her mother collected penny by penny to fulfill her little girl's dream, money that would not have that purpose with the triumph of the Revolution.


The change of weather in Madrid was abrupt. From the headlines, the storm flooded Spain. For 100 years, so much water has not fallen in one day. That October night I only thought about the invitation to the Lara Theater to see Joel Angelino, a Cuban from Sagua la Grande, for the instance of memory in which he gravitates with the monologue Strawberry and Chocolate, 30 years later.


If beds could talk, hospital stories would have more details. The weight of pain and the response of the body in struggle to recover the rhythm that life leads falls on them. The most critical and serious stories are written today in nine of the 13 beds of the intensive care service of the pediatric hospital of Camagüey.