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19 July 2026

It was 6:10 p.m., and she was resting at home. She never imagined she would experience anything like it. In Cuba, she had never lived through an earthquake, and nothing had prepared her for what was about to happen.

19 July 2026

With a program designed to promote learning, recreation, and community engagement, the provincial socio-cultural project Golpe a Golpe is offering a wide range of activities throughout the summer break for participants of all ages.

19 July 2026

Photo: Courtesy of the Camagüey branch of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) via Facebook. The Audiovisual Award went to Carmen y Martí: A Love Story, by María del Carmen Fuentes Pérez and Lázaro Ernesto Torres of Televisión Camagüey.

On the 37th anniversary of the death of Nicolás Guillén Batista, the Camagüey chapter of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) presented the awards for the Fifth Nicolás Guillén Chronicle Competition and Symposium, an event dedicated to Cuba’s National Poet.

16 June 2026

The Young Pioneer Action Forces (FAPI) will return this summer to engage Cuban schoolchildren in productive work, the preservation of local history, and energy-saving initiatives.

16 June 2026

When Germán Velazco begins telling his story, the conversation quickly stops feeling like an interview and becomes a journey through several decades of Cuban music history. A saxophonist, flutist, arranger, producer, and one of the essential figures of Cuban jazz and popular dance music, Velazco arrived in Camagüey as a guest of the second edition of Jazz Príncipe, where he shared memories, anecdotes, and reflections on a career that has taken him from the classrooms of Cuba’s National School of Arts to legendary ensembles such as Irakere, NG La Banda, and Pablo Milanés’ touring band.

16 June 2026

 I returned to the National Colloquium on Cultural Journalism. It has now reached its ninth edition. Inevitably, I found myself remembering the first one, back in 2018. A severe weather alert threatened to derail the event, but the participants came anyway. They crossed the country however they could to gather in Camagüey and talk about a profession that, then as now, was facing its own uncertainties.

16 June 2026

Literary creation among children and adolescents continues to show encouraging results in Camagüey, judging by the quality of the works recently evaluated within the province’s network of Houses of Culture.

16 June 2026

If a mass-casualty accident were to occur in Camagüey tomorrow, blood probably wouldn’t be there “listening to the conversation.” It would eventually appear, of course. Blood already earmarked for other patients would be redirected, and by the following day many Camagüey residents would likely be lining up outside the Blood Bank, rolling up their sleeves as they have done in the past.

16 June 2026

There was a time when world powers waited for Cuba to fall like ripe fruit. By June 2026, the fruit was no longer an apple, nor a geopolitical metaphor. It was a half-eaten guava, pecked away by a cheeky parakeet who watched from her cage as humans kept inventing new ways to make it through another day.

21 May 2026

 From May 20th to 24th, Camagüey will dress itself in cherry blossoms and Japanese tradition with the celebration of Hanami, the annual Japanese culture event organized by the MangaQ'ba project. This year’s edition carries special symbolism: the collective’s fifteenth anniversary.