Trinidad is since Sunday the venue of the Trinidad de Cuba First National Festival, the XV Trinifolk Dance Festival, and the first Theoretical Event Heritage and Identity, the three of which will run until next November 28th.»

Trinidad’s Benito Ortiz Borrell Gallery hosts these days the XXI Rafael Zerquera Rodríguez Salon, with works of more than fifty local artisans who may be members or not of the Cuban Association of Artisans and Artists (Acaa).»

Dr. Mario Alberto Triana Estrada (Mayito) tells about his work at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, in Timor Lorosa’e National University.»

After having been displayed in galleries of Sancti Spiritus and Havana, Raul Abreu’s Cerca del mar y del monte (Near the sea and the woods) photographic exhibition has finally settled in the Museum of Colonial Architecture of Trinidad.»

Cuban troubadour Pedro Luis Ferrer performed last Wednesday night, at Trinidad’s Municipal History Museum, former Cantero Palace. He was accompanied by his daughter Lena, and his brother Raul Ferrer.»

Neydis Mesa (Coki), the only woman of the Santander family who chose to dedicate herself to the pottery business.»

Liuba María Hevia remembers the moments in which she first came to Sancti Spiritus when she was 19 years old, and how her life has been linked to this territory ever since.»

“Are you nuts? Those who go there don’t come back”. This was how he was openly addressed in the street as soon as people knew he would leave for Sierra Leone, to fight Ebola. But, when you hold firm convictions, nothing matters. He completed his military service in Angola, in the 90s, where he had to assist the wounded during »

Sancti Spiritus students condemned terrorist actions against Cuba, and demanded the release of Antonio, Ramón, and Gerardo, who are still held in US prisons.»

The XXV International Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology closed this Saturday, in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus, with confirmation of the steps to modernize Cuba orthopedic components. The initiative is going to refinement, modernity in orthopedics and to turn Cuba into continental leader in the coming years, stated Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, president of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology.»