Special Reports


Every month there is a literary club in the house of Argelia, number 4 of Callejón de Alegría in the city of Camagüey. Adelante was there on the third Thursday of April. I wish we had enough space to have great detail, although the lines do confirm how well it goes with the grandmothers of a circle named like a glove: Alegrías de vivir (Joys of Living).

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The steps are heard heavy but fast. The serious demeanor of the boss intimidates. She comes from discussing a problem, her tired face shows it. The eternal staircase that goes up to her office seems to have done its thing too. She arrives and gives a kiss to those who work there. Very punctual, it was just the time agreed for the interview.

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Hope in blue: a school for children with autism

  The only one of its kind in Camagüey, the Héroes del Moncada school specializes in caring for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

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History confirms that “great tasks can be placed on the shoulders of the youth”. This Fidel’s maxim continues to be upheld by young people like Laura Marian Bacallao Padrón, a candidate for deputy in the Cuban parliament. At only 22 years old, the enthusiastic journalism student speaks of her commitment to her new challenges.

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Sometimes you meet a person and you don't know important issues about her, especially if she is simple and doesn't go divulging her virtues, but since life is in charge of putting things in their place, I learned that Dr. María Teresa Díaz Renón, Teresita, is a woman worth noting on a date like today, March 8.


Yunelkis Rivero Mayedo seems thin and petite, but many voices inhabit her inside her, as if she spoke and little people came out of her mouth. Yune, that's what her friends call her, she runs the Dos hermanos farm in Jimaguayú and works as an economics worker at the CCS Evelio Rodríguez in that municipality in Camagüey.


 For thinking about the person and not about the stereotype, the artisan Isabel Cristina Curbelo Ferrán won the palms at the 500+ Handicrafts and Gifts Fair, in this city, with the project Vestir la edad, for women over 50 years of age .


The tortuous path of the Villa Principeña

On February 2nd, 1514, in the chiefdom of Mayanabo (Punta de Guincho), Diego de Ovando and a group of horsemen who had marched by land from Jagua (Cienfuegos) met together with forty men who arrived by sea with food, weapons, tools and fishing supplies, from the first town of Baracoa.


When the patient cannot speak

What is the name of the baby?

"Alan, his name is Alan," the nurse says quickly and out loud.