I returned there after 11 years. There are many new faces; however, you can review many of the memories that I keep with affection from the Javier de la Vega Basulto High School.

I walked its corridors, the same ones that I made mine with the unique flavor that adolescence and years of study offer in a center that today has an enrollment of 402 students and 39 teachers. It is the educational institution that exhibits relevant results in Mathematics and Physics competitions, as the most relevant examples and, in addition, they stand out in sporting events as a complement to teaching activities.

From the beginning it was always like this. Julia Mirtha Capote García can assure this, whom many students and teachers remember for her industriousness and sense of belonging. She says that before it was the “Latin America” Pre-University Institute and in the eighties it became the Javier de la Vega Basulto High School.

Julia served as Head of the Natural Sciences Department for five years and then as a teaching secretary for 15 years. From that period, he refers that Javier de la Vega was for many years a center of reference in the province, which bears the name of a man who joined the struggles for independence with only 17 years under the command of Federico Castellanos Arteaga and of Commander José Ramón Guerra Agüero. Four years later he joined the “Caonao” Regiment, ruled by Major General Ignacio Agramonte. At the end of the Great War, the outstanding military man held the ranks of Commander.

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It bears the name of the one who ordered his children not to allow any ostentation at his burial; it bears the name of a great patriot who guides a new generation of people from Camagüey.

Translated by: Aileen Álvarez García