SOCIETY

Errar, de humanos. Rectificar, ¿de periodistas?

Journalists’ most repeated joke states that doctors bury their mistakes; lawyers lock them up and journalists publish them. Of course, a typo, besides adding jokes and anecdotes, usually has no greater consequences. The worst thing is when misguided jobs, misguided approaches, or distant texts or images of common sense are transmitted or that contradict some harsh reality.

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CULTURE

A young dreamer for the bel canto

Hardly anyone imagines that behind Eugenio Hernández Castañeda, a sturdy and affable young man who sometimes pedals on a biketaxi through the streets of Caimito, there is a talent of lyrical art in Cuba. Nor do they imagine that his brother Sam, sometimes at the “helm” of the same biketaxi, is an excellent special effects creator for Cuban Television.

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CULTURE

A writer’s venturous walks

No obstacle seems to stop her. Much less the scarcity of vision. He writes persistently and does it especially well. From this magnificent gift he has left evidence in several books and in an important international award won in Spain. Today Gilda Guimeras Pareja, a habanera residing in Guanajay, satisfied with life in spite of everything, and having found enlightenment and fullness in her approach to the Catholic Church, has much to tell readers of the New Word.

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