fidel huella Holguín 57Inauguration of the José Martí Vocational School on September 1, 1977. Photos: Courtesy of Miguel Cano Blanco

“The imprint of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro is present in many places of Holguín”, asserts Miguel José Cano Blanco, who was first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in this eastern Cuban province for 13 years.

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The Photographers Club and the Organizing Committee of the Romerías de Mayo in Holguín convene the FotoFest 2021 self-taught photography contest to be held from May 2 to 8 from digital platforms, as part of the 28th edition of that event that takes place in the fifth month of the year in the eastern city since 1994.

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The 62nd National Oral Polio Vaccination Campaign started simultaneously across Cuba and will be run until April to keep the country free of cases of this infectious-contagious disease.

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The Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda announced on Wednesday the holding of the VII Plenary Session of the body, this Friday, December 15 and Saturday, December 16.

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The province of Holguín, with the largest maternity hospital in Cuba at the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital, closed the year 2024 with an infant mortality rate of 5.31 per thousand live births, a figure that places this indicator among the lowest in the country.

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