A video posted on Facebook shows the state of deterioration of the Escuela Mixta Victoria de Girón, in Nuevitas, Camagüey, a center that was once the largest primary school in Latin America.
The educational center currently has worn walls, broken windows, and abandoned spaces.
The reel, published by the user Grether Sánchez, has generated a wave of nostalgia and sadness among both former students still living in Camagüey and those residing abroad.
"Victoria de Girón, the largest primary school in all of Latin America. But for us, it was much more than that. It was the place where we learned to read, to write, to dream," Grether says in the video.
The images in the reel show how the passage of time and neglect have severely deteriorated the facilities of the educational center, inaugurated on July 26, 1979, under the name Escuela Primaria Los Micros.
The deterioration of this emblematic school is a reflection of the general state of education in Cuba, where authorities have even asked families to send their children to classes despite the collapse of the electrical system, even allowing them to attend without a uniform.
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