The world of journalism and culture is losing these days to personalities who have left a deep mark on their people.
The company Acosta Dansa has mourned the death of teacher Rosa Elena Álvarez, a renowned figure in ballet education in Cuba and founding director of the academy of the same name, the Latin Press reported.
Carlos Acosta, director of Acosta Dansa, considered the teacher a treasure and said that “she was the artistic mother of hundreds of dancers who have kept the name of our country very high.”
In the field of design and caricature, Miriam Alonso died, retired from the Palante Publishing House, a publication of which she was deputy director for more than 50 years. She is remembered for her character Talla, from the strip Els pelusos, drawn by her since the 1980s.
Miriam was the first internationally recognized Cuban cartoonist and received significant recognition for her work.
Another loss is that of the renowned Cuban television, radio and film actor Iván Colás Costa. According to Cubadebate, his sister Angelina Colás, in a telephone conversation stated that the causes of the artist’s death were heart complications that ended in respiratory arrest, due to COVID-19. In the morning, the actor’s remains were buried in the cemetery of this province, the press reported.
The Camagüey poet, narrator, critic and journalist Félix Guerra Pulido also died this September 2 in Havana.
As journalist he developed an intense task by which he obtained recognitions like the National Prize of Journalism Juan Gualberto Go’mez.
His work in verse includes titles The dream of the jaguar (1993), Securities lender (Spain, 1997), The melody of the drum (2000), Islands and other continents (2006). In this regard, the poet and narrator Reyna Esperança Creu has written on her Facebook wall: “she leaves essential books for Cuban culture, both poetry and narrative, as well as journalism and environmental concern. His work offers him permanence and spiritual vitality. Cuban poetry will not forget it.
