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Young Pioneer Action Forces Return This Summer
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.
Read more ...Germán Velazco: Between Legend and Memory
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.
Read more ...The Conversation We Still Need
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.
Read more ...Young Writers Keep Literary Creativity Thriving
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.
Camagüey’s Missing Lifelines
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.
The Guava of Discord
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.
Hanami in Camagüey: Fifteen Years of Japanese Culture and Community
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.
