Bárbara Oliva García

A man from Camagüey mistaken for Bayamés

What is known about the author of La Revolución de Yara, one of the most important works in the historiography of the campaign of the Ten Years’ War? Inquiries about

Bárbara Oliva García

A mambí “to be reckoned with”: Chicho Valdés

If you ask about Manuel de Jesús Valdés Urra, among lovers of Homeland History -especially of the independence wars- some will remain pensive, like those who search their memory for

Bárbara Oliva García

The City Title: The controversy of a designation

In ancient history, the use of the shield played an essential role. In the old continent it was used fundamentally to distinguish the lineage of numerous families, from the nobility

Bárbara Oliva García

The second Agrarian Reform Law in Camagüey

The revolutionary victory led to the application of various actions to comply with the problems set forth in Fidel Castro’s historic claim of self-defense during the trials for the Assault

Bárbara Oliva García

The enigmas of a legend from Camagüey

Legend has it that, in 1800, a character from Puerto Príncipe spread panic in the former town of more than 336,777 inhabitants, the individual whose name was never known, was

Bárbara Oliva García

Symbol of patriotism: the Guáimaro fire

José Martí in the article of April 10th, 1892 published in the newspaper Patria, said about Guáimaro “The peoples, like men, have hours of heroic virtue…” words that contained his

Bárbara Oliva García

Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros. A genuine lugareño

I don’t think there is a local personality in Camagüey so identified by his nickname as Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros, whom everyone recognizes as El Lugareño, which in his own words

Bárbara Oliva García

The Cuban Revolutionary Party and Camagüey

Marti’s emissaries from the PRC arrived in Camagüey, as in other Cuban regions, to talk, analyze and coordinate the preparations for the future war, including Commander Gerardo Castellanos Lleonart, Porfirio

Bárbara Oliva García

Cuban Northern Railroad Company, a little-known story

During the 19th century, the Nuevitas-Puerto Príncipe railway company was insufficient in the Camagüey region. Faced with such circumstances, new railway projects were needed, one of them would come to

Bárbara Oliva García

José Rodríguez Zunzunegui: a story to tell

In the history of Cuba there are important moments that invite us to delve into events and figures not only national. The Revolution of 1930, defined by popular participation, various

Bárbara Oliva García

Amalia Simoni Argilagos, beyond a romantic paradigm

Amalia Simoni is almost always associated with her husband Ignacio Agramonte, her merits as a mother, patriot and Cuban have been silenced between the modesty that characterized her and the

Bárbara Oliva García

Tribute from Camagüey to La Peregrina

If you approach the biography of Tula or La Peregrina, pseudonyms by which Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda is known, you may be curious about that ground-breaking woman in her personal

Bárbara Oliva García

The Camagüey Railway Museum, safeguarding the future

Museums since ancient times are important institutions in the cultures of peoples. Contemporary museology invites every May 18th since 1977, to rethink museums beyond those sacred places, warehouses of old

Bárbara Oliva García

Brígida Agüero, essential writer of Cuban literature

The poetic work of Brígida Agüero y Agüero, from Camaguey, a member of the Philharmonic Society’s literature section, constitutes an inevitable legacy in Cuban lyricism. If you hear that Camagüey