The 31st edition of the Visual Arts Salon opened with the awarding of the Grand Prize to artist Yosvani Rodríguez Batista for his work "Fragments of Reality," noted for its deep dramatic impact and subtle use of printmaking in an installation format.

María Dolores Rodríguez Cabrera was a distinguished soprano from Holguín, whose career made her a benchmark for opera singing both in Cuba and abroad.

The Cuadernos Papiro publishing house of Holguín, in eastern Cuba, participated from August 11 to 17 in the 21st edition of the International Book Fair at the Atlapa Convention Center in Panama City.

Brothers Luis and Sergio Montes de Oca Saíz combined literature and social justice. Revolutionary struggle rhymed in their verses, and protest was the focus of their essays. The young men from San Juan y Martínez, Pinar del Río, aged just seventeen and eighteen, were killed during the Batista dictatorship.