The city grows every day with the hearts and work of its people; So much so, that in its streets, buildings and public spaces in general, locals have written a good part of their lives and profess infinite love for a place that, even thousands of kilometers away, occupies an indelible part of memories and passions.
The year was 1749 and the Jesuit Order raised a sum not much higher than 50 thousand pesos with the commitment to build a school in Camagüey, completed eight years later, while they finished another in Havana.
Curse words have become fashionable: in some songs (yes that's what you can call them); They are in the mouths of children and even older people who get on a bus or stand in line. There are those who see it as something normal, even without realizing it they hum lyrics that should not even be pronounced.
On January 22, 1869, a little more than three months after the beginning of the first war of independence in the eastern countryside of Cuba, a brave act carried out by Creole artists at the Villanueva Theater in Havana, highlighted patriotism and the love of freedom of the children of this land.
There is certain news that arrives in reverse and, since we do not have the agenda of our lives prepared for it, it is more difficult for us to accept, digest, write... It is assumed, for example, that young journalists are the ones who say goodbye to old colleagues with their chronicles. that they leave, so, when Yurislenia Pardo Ortega has just died at just 35 years old and with two little daughters to raise, one is confirmed in the idea that not only does she know very little about journalism, but that journalism itself is sometimes not enough to understand life.
We reach a new year, 2024, in full independence, sovereignty and freedom, which validates the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959, already on its 65th anniversary, after overcoming great obstacles contained in the actions against the Cuban nation coming from the enemy government of the north.
Today he is the heart of the city. If you walk it you will find it very close to the center, in the park that bears his name, which everyone mentions over and over again, or in his Birthplace from when he was born and was not yet El Mayor, from when he lived later.
Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz saw the light of day for the first time in a stately town on December 23, 1841, 182 years ago, during a Christmas that seemed to predict a happy and peaceful existence for him in Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe (current Camagüey), but that newborn He would have a very different destiny when years later he decided to dedicate himself to the independence of his country by wearing the star that illuminates and kills.
The United States promotes the accountability of others for human rights; however, a simple analysis of its recent history indicates it as a country with chronic illnesses and among the main violators.
Among Cubans, December joyfully opens its doors with the celebration on its third day of Latin American Medicine Day, in honor of the birth of the outstanding scientist and compatriot Carlos J. Finlay on that date in 1833.
Today marks seven years since Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz entered immortality, but with the certainty that he is still with us in each of the actions undertaken to give continuity to the Moncada Program, tempered with the present.
The celebration of the IV Conference The Nation and Emigration, in the capital, maintains that Cuba does not ignore, in any way, its children who, for various reasons, reside abroad, respect and defend the soil where they were born .