Preparations for bicentennial of the press of Camagüey

The celebration of the bicentennial of the press of Camagüey will evoke the birth of Curious Weekly publication, hand written organ been founded in June 1810 by the lawyer of the Dominican Republic Antonio Herrera Gordo, reports AIN. The first promoter group of the commemoration of the date was constituted with fourth year-old students in Journalism of the University of Camagüey.

That community opened the preparatory process to organize, in dependences of the UPEC, the celebration of the new anniversary of a half created by one of the magistrates of the Real Audience of Puerto Príncipe, then the main tribunal of the whole America colonized by Spain.

Centered in the month of June, the commemorative proposal inserts actions like a scientific event, a homage to died people of Camagüey with remarkable print in the journalism, and cultural activities.

About 20 amanuenses reproduced same quantity of copies of the primary publication, which were rotated in a successive way, after the reading, until arriving to around 200 subscribers, in accordance with Eduardo Labrada's investigation, of the local weekly publication Adelante.

The hand written organ was substituted in 1812 by Mirror, dean of the printed newspapers in the city, and coming from the pioneer printing of the town, where was installed in that year, affirms the mentioned checking.

According to the scan in books and INTERNET, Camagüey became the third city where a newspaper was published in the country, preceded by the Havana and Santiago de Cuba, in 1764 and 1805, respectively.

The press in Camagüey includes to Adelante, a net of radial and television radio stations and corresponsalities of organs resided in the capital.(Taken from Granma)