The appearant in la guanaja
Gerónimo de Ballester once again felt extremely happy to reach La Guanaja pier again. He was the captain of the sailboat Ave Maria, and he came ashore in the middle
Adolfo Silva Silva
16/05/2024
Centenary of the beginning of nicolás guillén in pisto manchego
Perhaps the street vendors of the newspaper El Camagüeyano announced, on March 25th, 1924, –one hundred years ago– that a certain Interino took over the Pisto Manchego section from that
Adolfo Silva Silva
09/05/2024
THE INCREDIBLE DEFEAT OF VASCO PORCALLO DE FIGUEROA
(This story could have been related to this writer, one of my ancestors, according to a rigorously verified family tree, but the cruelty of that character prevents me from dedicating
Adolfo Silva Silva
12/03/2024
THE BISHOP’S HERESY
He bequeathed a suspicious burden embodied in a will. And that was an extraordinary contraction, since he was the bishop of Cuba, then the highest religious authority on the Island.
Adolfo Silva Silva
04/03/2024
A Nazi submarine sunk off Nuevitas?
A Nazi submarine was sunk about three miles from the Maternillo lighthouse, off Nuevitas Bay, in the north of the Cuban province of Camagüey. The lighthouse is the second highest
Adolfo Silva Silva
04/10/2023
Indigenous legacy in a text of La Avellaneda
Marked by its notorious anti-slavery character, the novel Sab, of La Avellaneda, has another singularity: it is possibly the first literary work with allusions to Indo-Cuban pictographs. Gathered in a
Adolfo Silva Silva
18/03/2019
Nicolás Guillen’s beloved streets from Camagüey
In one of his vehement ones he proclaims love for their native city, Nicolás Guillén wrote My beloved streets from Camagüey, a profuse chronicle in people and places kept in
Adolfo Silva Silva
06/12/2018
