Special Reports


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.

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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.

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 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 .

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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.


 Martí: worker of all time

The universality of Martí, forged by the scope of his thoughts, places him as an indispensable foundation in the spiritual progress of our Homeland. This one-man-orchestra who was a poet, modernist, humanist, philosopher, journalist... is a recipe and reference manual for topics that will never go out of style, such as his vision of the fundamental cell in the flourishing of a nation: the worker.


In the deep language of pain

I was five years old when they introduced me to Martí: he came to me before knowing how to read. It was the preschool teacher, as a glimpse and omen of a great love for letters, who brought us closer from the pages of La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age), so Martí was also my primary school teacher... and my companion of learned poetry with his Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses), and even the educator with a quasi-gentlemanly civic attitude in his phrases (put on television spots) where he always appeared on the screen, back in the eighties, a child with his "strong man's little hands" carrying a flower in his hands for his friend.


When doing research delivers happiness and professional fulfillment

It is never exhausting to contribute with love and dedication to science, and to the development and well-being of society. On the contrary, Dr. C. Yailé Caballero Mota, expert in Artificial Intelligence and Director of International Relations of the University of Camagüey (UC) Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, assures that doing research is a dose of happiness and professional fulfillment.