CAMAGÜEY.- Due to the dedication to Colombia, the Book Fair in Camagüey cannot lack magical realism, and that is what the organizers take care of, as we noted in the opening that moved the Casino Campestre between son, cumbia and ballenato.

The accordion was missing, it's true, but Gabo was sung and represented in detail by the mannequins of Teatro de Luz as characters from One Hundred Years of Solitude: Amaranta, Úrsula, Colonel Buendía and Melquíades, that gypsy from whom we know that even In Macondo things have a life of their own.

Under the artistic direction of Jesús Rueda Infante, the inauguration of the event scheduled until March 12, was a show that combined the homage to the land of Gabriel García Márquez with the affection for Nicolás Guillén and the multitude of writers from Camagüey.

The poet and journalist Sergio Morales Vera, chosen for the welcome speech to guests and the general public, evoked Fidel Castro and the essences of the Cuban Revolution with literacy because they are "the ideas to defend the Homeland and the arsenals are the books ”.

This Fair concentrates its program in the Casino Campestre, with the theoretical weight in the literary café La Comarca; although it will also come with readings, book presentations and exchanges at various institutions.

The Nuevo Mundo Audiovisual Complex houses the digital pavilion, the headquarters of the Nicolás Guillén Foundation opens up to poetry; and the cultural center Librería Ateneo-Vietnam proposes talks.

In the Campestre park the children's pavilion is always attractive; while a few meters away is the Carpa de la Reina, where the Hermanos Saíz Association discusses employment issues for young creators and stimulates dialogue with their referents. In fact, yesterday it opened with the singer-songwriter Frank Delgado in the role of presenter of book and offered an informal Cuban trova class.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez