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11 December 2023

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.

11 December 2023

The international Camagua Folk Dance festival adds competitions for dance couples, and for the first time it will have the physical participation of foreign dancers, from December 14th to 17th in this city.

07 December 2023

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.

20 November 2023

Despite the rain at dawn last Thursday in the city, students and teachers were more ready and eager than usual to arrive at the Luis Casas Romero Vocational Art School (EVA) to say goodbye to their festival.

15 November 2023

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.

15 November 2023

He is King Ferdinand the 7th painted by Goya three years before he signed the paper to grant the title of city to the most Mediterranean town in Cuba.

14 November 2023

Art schools in this city resume the annual festival that they suspended when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. They promise from November 13th to 17th an event balanced in thought and creation.

06 November 2023

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.

03 November 2023

The gravity of the Cuban painter and pedagogue Lorenzo Linares Duque kept colleagues, disciples and admirers of his work in suspense, who on Tuesday 31st mourn his death in this city, at the age of 71.

29 October 2023

As part of the activities of the Day for Cuban Culture, dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the Bayamo Anthem being sung for the first time, on October 20th, 1868, and to young artists, the Vicentina de la Torre Academy of Arts has developed throughout the month of October special activities with the performance of its students of Ballet, Theater, Visual Arts, and the Art Instructor careers of these last two specialties. Defense of national identity and rigor in teaching characterize these spaces.