I Want to Climb Higher

Yarisley does not want to
be obssessed with a certain height..

By Glauber Garcia Lara

Yarisley does not want to be obssessed with a certain height, but she is sure she will get her goal.

Don’t Be the “Airhead” of the Group

We feel sorry for those people who cannot appreciate a good conversation, a book, a movie, a Yanni’s concert, a documentary, a play or a painting. To  achieve that  you must feel the pleasure of feeding the soul. This is the opinion of a young sociologist.

 

By Nancy Pérez Medina

With Love and Responsibility

By Alicia Centelles
Photo: Wildy

This girl, very fluent and with a characteristic look, has developed a very fast career, which began on the big screen and with a difficult role. For those who are amazed of such a dizzy trajectory, Limara Meneses only has an answer: you can achieve everything with love and responsibility.

A Center to Love Your Homeland’s History

By Mercedes Rodriguez Garcia

Photos: Manuel Feria

Young students in Che Square.

"You can not love what you do not know," Aristides Rondon Velazquez assures rightly and moved. He has 45 years of experience as a pedagogue and is a senior specialist in the Center for the Development of Youth (CDJ) Francisco Gómez Toro, affiliated to the Young Communist League in the province of Villa Clara.

Monica Enriches Souls

 

By Nancy Pérez Medina

Mónica (left) with one of her students.

The Magic Shoes ballet company, a community cultural project of Sant Boi Theatre in Marianao, provides spirituality to special children and their families, friends and the public who enjoy the show they offer.

With Young People in All the Seasons of the Year

 By Laura Rodriguez Fuentes

Six days a week, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Station 2000 accompanies the public of all ages and receives the special acknowledgment of the young people, because thinking about them and next to them it stays in all the seasons of the year.

The Pleasure of Researching

By Lubia Ulloa Trujillo
Photos: Osvaldo Gutiérrez

Researching is a fascinating
job to Carlos Eduardo.

When we speak about scientists we often think of adults. However, this adjective is owned also by young people, who constantly challenge questions searching the best solutions.

Three in one

Arian Iznaga Aldiles junto
a su entrenadora Miriam Ferrer
y su guía Yassen Pérez.
(Foto: Elio Miranda)

By Mongui

While Arian Iznaga Aldiles was a good Cuban representative to the Beijing Paralympic Games, the truth is that, as he himself admits, the achievement is due to a harmonic runner-guide–coach relationship.

From the Beautiful Thing and the Bitter Thing

By Sayli Sosa Barceló

Testimony of two of the first people diagnosed with AIDS in the province of Ciego de Avila.

Young Couturiers

La juventud se impone en este oficio de siempre.

By Ana María González Sabat

Photos: Ronald Suárez Rivas

Aleida Rodriguez (19) and Yimian Socarrás  (20) are two young people who devote their lives to sewing. The first one  is in a three month training in Julián Alemán workshop, in Pinar del Río; the second one meetes new challenges, in Catalina Valdes workshop, and he do not limit his profile to the sewing machine, but he tries also to learn other aspects of this world.

Piercing in a safe way

By Mongui 

Maybe following the dictates of fashion or a simple aesthetic taste, piercings have imposed themselves recently, no matter the sex. It is known they are put on parts of the body so unthinkable before as lips, eyebrows, nose and even genitals! From a clinical point of view, it is extremely dangerous to put on those attributes in these very sensitive areas of our bodies.

The challenges of Nayla

By Madelín Ramírez 

When Nayla Robaina arrived at Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez Agronomic University of Havana, in San José las Lajas, she was sure she had made a mistake. Agronomy seemed to her a  terrible choice then

She had decided to end her first year with good results to change to another major later, but her teachers managed to awaken in the student an unexpected feeling and at the conclusion of the course, she came home with the news: "I’ll stay, I want to be an agronomic engineer".

Karela’s new life

By Dania Mendoza Gómez   

Karela is a very lively Nicaraguan young girl, one of those people who "are always up" and, above all, she is very grateful for the support received from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the Cuban government.

 Given the nexus of indissoluble friendship between the two peoples she could be submitted to a kidney transplant on the island. This means for her, of course, the possibility of a new life.

Artificial Paradises

Even if sometimes everything
seems to go wrong, there is
always a way out,
that it should never be the drug.

By Yarelis Rico


They invited him to taste it only once, only a little, later he wanted more… I became a person it was not possible to speak with… they sell their clothes, domestic appliances and they even rob… I would want they ‘to take me to the hospital, this kills, destroy you psychologically and physically… it takes your time, your intelligence and your life.

From the Clouds

By Isabelle
Photo: Wildy

“It is difficult to enjoy the first jump. Although it is what you have wished the most, you are too tense”. Thus it begins our dialogue with Teider Brooks Deller, a member of the Club of Aviation of Cuba and a parachutist of great experience.

United We Stand

By IWC

They said Dailier Vives Robles was not very talkative, that it was going to be difficult to interview this young circus artist that attends his last year in the National School of Circus, of the Art National School ( ENA in Spanish), and who was chosen by his classmates as the best student in his promotion.

Making Part of the Solution

By Isabelle
Photos: Elio

An ample range of popular sectors accedes today to different responsibilities in the society. Technicians, farmers, artists, doctors, students, conjugate their efforts and knowledges for the good of the majority. Our blog approaches today to the trajectory of one of these people, young parlamentarian Leticia Veitía Núñez

Hip Hop with Cuban Roots

By Heldrys Contreras
 Photos: Courtesy of Hermanazos
 

Talented, worried about the society and the problems concerning youth, they are the members of Hermanazos: Danny Osmell Velázquez Iglesias (Afrovelázquez, director, composer and vocalist), Johaned Bueno Claxton (singer) and Juan Reinier Velázquez Calzado (Rey Jamal, dancer and vocalist).