The Cuban magazine Bohemia, considered one of the oldest in Latin America, and dean of investigative journalism in the region, celebrates its 115th anniversary.
Born on May 10, 1908 in Havana, the illustrated weekly publication was one of the strongest pillars of the cultural press in its first decades, but over time it took on issues related to the country's social, political, and economic challenges in recent years. years prior to the revolutionary triumph of 1959.
Bohemia was the first to reveal in the first days of 1959 the truth about the events related to the assault on the Moncada barracks, a bastion of the dictatorship in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, on July 26, 1953, information that it could not extract. at the time due to the censorship imposed.
Over the years, the magazine, already at the service of the revolutionary government, became an important space for monitoring all the transformations that have occurred in the Antillean nation, as well as a forum for denouncing the hostility of the United States policy towards the island.
Bohemia received the Dignity Award, granted by the Union of Cuban Journalists to true paradigms for society, a distinction that highlights her work in various contexts and historical circumstances that made her one of the most enduring and notable references of Cuban journalism.
Embacuba Dinamarca