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Lázaro Cánovas, graduated as an engineer from the Polytechnic Higher Institute (CUJAE) and then a professor at the University of Computer Science (UCI), left everything to dedicate his life to priestly vocation.

Thank you for making you present in my way through so many people in my vocational process

This Thursday took place in the parish of San Pedro Apóstol, in Quivicán, the diaconal ordination of Julio César Rodríguez Díaz, by laying on hands and consecratory prayer of Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, Archbishop of Havana.

This Tuesday, August 4, the Holy Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Havana took place the Holy Mass Crismal, which was presided over by Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, and concelebrated with his priests.

Eusebio Leal Spengler: Born September 11, 1942 in Havana, Cuba. Doctor of Historical Sciences and Master of Archaeological Sciences, City Historian and Director of the Restoration Program, he has distinguished himself in a particular way by driving the restoration works of the Historic Center of Havana, declared by Unesco in 1982 World Heritage Site. He died on July 31, 2020, in the same city to which he gave his best of his being and chores: Havana.

The magazine Palabra Nueva wanted to share the expressions of a group of diverse voices to offer to its readers as a sample of the personal and collective experiences that have been lived in this peculiar and amazing leap year, this twenty-twenty become quarent. Under the title “Notes of the Year of the Covid”, the new series opens up space for chronicle, interview, poetry… in short, to genders where the saying of women, men, young people, children and the elderly will rest. An entrepreneur, a plastic artist, a housewife, a mother, a son… He will also say a bishop and an evangelist. An emigration, a doctor… Everyone will tell how their days have elapsed, how they have faced the challenges, and what reading they make of what happened. Angel Alonso Blanco, Cuban visual artist, art critic and editor, is the first to communicate his experience.

The Archbishop of Havana recalls Cardinal Jaime Ortega, on the first anniversary of his death and asks the Lord for his eternal rest.

The Covid-19 crisis has tested not only the health systems of the affected countries, but also the different societies and states in the face of the two major problems posed: the health and functioning of the economy. Prioritizing the second over the former has deepened the crisis in some nations. In the case of Cuba, it has been favored by an effective health system articulated with the decisions of the government and the state, which have been clear that health is the most important thing, even if the economy is battered and suffers the onslating of border closures with its consequences for the entry of tourists, which is one of the few columns of that economy. On these and other notes goes this approach to the year of the Covid.

With the following photoreporting Palabra Nueva stops at the reality of the streets and public spaces of the Cuban capital, where in recent times an increase of individuals who roam, mentally ill, alcoholic and “irresponsible” fighters has been seen.” Another idea of this photo series is to show physical isolation and, above all, citizen irresponsibility