Special Reports


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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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Initiatives in favor of celiacs in Camagüey

Only in some instances did Liliana Bacallao González put herself in the "skin" of a rural woman. She always dreamed of herself being on the stage, never by the furrow or the pens. In the house of culture in her native Amancio, she performed the first interpretations.


He says that at the age of fourteen he climbed for the first time to a palm hidden from his parents with the harness that an acquaintance of the family left at home.


Vicente Molina Teirot, a citizen of Swiss origin, wants Cuba as his home. No country like this to feel happy, for sure. “I am not Cuban but I notice something in their land that calms me down. With the new coronavirus, the world situation has become complex, which is why I am very grateful to spend it with what I consider "my people." Here they take care of us more than anywhere else ”.


To save people 8 128 kilometers away (+ Video)

In Crema, the Italian region of Lombardy 8,128 kilometers away, little was said about Cuba when Yosmani arrived. For those there, this was simply a place with good beaches and peculiar people. In two and a half months their way of seeing us changed.


Danixia Novoa Sotomayor had been waiting for several months for the departure to one of the small islands of the Pacific as a collaborator of medical services abroad. The appearance of COVID-19 disrupted the plans.