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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SOCIETY

Smart Cuba?

A couple of recent events set off alarms about the invasion of idiocy swarming in the nets. In recent days, news of the occurrence of attacks and offenses to the Facebook profile of Cuban actor Roberto Espinosa Sebazco circulated on some digital platforms, who in the Cuban novel on duty plays a loathsome rapist and paedophile. Another event, which also calls us to analysis is the violent capital regrowth of Covid-19. Social indiscipline, ignoring health and government orientations, is another way of exercising idiocy.

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CULTURE

“Disney, the company, inside”

For its nonconformity, the struggle to maintain its conquests and overcome as a study, conglomerate or companionship, A day at Disney deserves to be enjoyed following the biblical proverb: “meek as a dove and cautious as a snake”. Well, according to a certain opinion, “the more sensitive, the more reliable,” although it is also true that reflexive sensibility can be an extraordinary delight. Let us not give up on her, especially when watching this documentary.

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SOCIETY

Covid Year Notes (11)

To find old friends in a crisis situation, he revealed to this woman, Cuban, architect and visual artist, who was supposed to retain this moment in a work. It was important for her to hear her voices, her laughter, her ideas, her illusions, jokes, and her sacrifices, “beyond sharing them or not, beyond differences, beyond all that exists.” From this experience born in pandemic time, he conceived the project “To all who know how to love”, a video that brings together dear friends. As a base and common thread, he took the martyred discourse “With all and for the good of all”.

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