The 28th edition of the Ibero-American Culture Festival takes place from today in Holguín until October 30 with an extensive program of activities that includes concerts, exhibitions, artistic solidarity brigades and an archeology day.

The Russian opera “Eugene Oneguin” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin, will premiere on March 15 at the Raúl Camayd hall of the "Eddy Suñol" Cultural Theater Complex in Holguín.

Inauguration 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.