The provincial act for the 58^th anniversary of the declaration of Cuba as Territory Free of Illiteracy and Teachers’ Day took place on December 16 in this city.

Olga Góngora Lezcano was born in this city, but the family was of Vertientes, she studied educational practice in Santa Clara, in the School of Rural Household, and she returned to the soil, where after her graduation in 1944, she came to have a classroom fifteen years later, due to the triumph of the Revolution, in the intricate area of Santa Lucia 1, among mud and birds and weathering storms.

The Cuban Ministry of Culture of Cuba today awarded Cuban actress Corina Mestre with the national prize of the artistic education, by the merits achieved in the work done as an actress and teacher for other actors.