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When the girls of Sangre Gitana were rehearsing for their 24th anniversary gala, they could not have imagined that just weeks later the news would be very different: they had won the Grand Prize in the Children’s category at the Provincial Dance Festival. The award confirms the strength of a project built patiently from the community, with childhood at its core.

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Fui tu querer (I Was Your Desire) reached my hands by following an intimate, warm path, built more on affection than on protocol. Margarita Polo sent it to me through a cousin, as someone passes along a cherished secret, and that gesture closed a circle that had begun long before.

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My daughter came home from school with a seemingly simple request: to bring something to donate to the children in eastern Cuba who have lost everything after Hurricane Melissa. At home — still carrying the fragility of recent days, when almost all of us were sick as the storm hit — that request had a different weight.

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The dramatic story of a boy expelled from his home for wanting to become a dancer —and the silent battles that shaped his life— forms the heart of the documentary “Chávez: In Body and Soul,” which premiered on October 24th at the Nuevo Mundo Video Hall in this city.

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She never left the classroom. Not even during the 14 years she served as academic vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine did she stop teaching undergraduates. Until January 2024, she climbed to the third floor of the school to meet with her students and teach Genetics—the subject she had taught since 1978, back when the Camagüey Institute of Medical Sciences didn’t even exist.

Since Cuba is the land of leaks—Radio Bemba, we call our longest-running media outlet—and leaks here aren't just constructive, a few have been saying for a long time: "Miozotis Fabelo will be named Heroine of Labor!" So, to save words or time, which in journalism is the same thing, some colleagues here and there named her as such, although she, very keen on seeking precise pronouncements from the right sources, wasn't amused by the leak.

 The smell of oil and the rhythmic sound of the lathe are the soundtrack to Gerardo García Calet's life. At 63 years old, he has spent more than four decades sculpting metal, transforming cold steel into precise and functional pieces.

 In 2025, the Camagüey Town Hall building will be 250 years old, although since the 16th century, Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe had a Town Hall as busy as the town itself.

 There are men whose mere presence lights up a room, even though, pains and limitations may be hidden behind their smile. Nazario Salazar, at 84 years old, faces the challenges of his age: mobility issues, aftereffects of neurological episodes, and the weight of years lived intensely. However, it seems that all those afflictions vanish whenever he greets or extends his hand, or gives a warm look. It is in these moments that we remember the greatness of his generation, the importance of looking toward them, and deeply valuing them while we have them among us.

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