Special Reports


Pedro de Alcántara Téllez Girón y Pimentel was what is called a Spanish military and politician out of the ordinary for his time. Endowed with a rare culture, he conquered numerous distinctions, both in peace and in war. In 1840, he came to Cuba as governor and captain general, and although he held the position for just one year he knew how to take advantage of the time.

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is not synonymous of illness, but ...

In the space of this section, issues related, fundamentally, to any disease, what its causes are, how to avoid it (if possible), and how to live with it are addressed. This time the matter is interesting, but it gets a little out of the formal script because it is about aging and more so when it comes to that time of life with the loneliness that affects so much.

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Cosmetics in consultation ...

This time we helped ourselves with two health professionals to address a controversial issue, such as Cosmetology and its relationship with Dermatology.

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December 2, 1956, at a point on the southern coast of eastern Cuba the Granma expedition led by Fidel landed, committed to be "free or martyrs"

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In the words of Pepe Reyes, art direction

José Denis (Pepe) Reyes is a native of Camagüey dedicated to artistic direction in Havana. To him, we owe a precious art direction for the opening show of the recent audiovisual exhibition El Almacén de la Imagen. He was also the art director of the television program Luces del Almacén, broadcasted through the Cultural News.


I have read that aging begins at 20 calendars; also, that 20 years is nothing, and thus a series of truths and puzzles related to human beings. However, when a visit to the Cardiovascular Care Center of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech University Hospital, two decades after it was founded, you realize that time does matter and that far from aging the site offers life and something of utmost importance: there they do not stop dreaming.


There is nothing fragile about that tremendous mulatta. She is all energy and goodness. She is an inexhaustible source of that "inexplicable" force that does not come from the strech-marked muscles, but from the cardio and the spirit. This force allows her to resist the burden of three land cavalries, one of which is devoted to several crops and to take care of cattle, rams, geese, chickens and ducks, without neglecting the house and the attention of her family. In the face of all that, her robustness is surprising.


"I made my own yoke," says a proud Anastasio, a peasant who has not few words while speaking. He is very good at conversation; he enjoys it, no matter what the intrusive tape recorder is.


Anonymous and indispensable brave ones

Those who read about Eliecer Ruiz Corvea and Onelia Expósito Gutiérrez, he, founder of the Maximum Gómez Báez Vocational School, with just 22 years old, and she has been a teacher of the same school since she was very young, would believe that the topic will be about their experiences, which have it well-deserved. However, this dialog with the physics teacher (Pipo, for his students) and the one in Spanish and Literature - with 43 years of a beautiful marriage for which they dispute who deserves the gold medal - addresses another of its dimensions.