Renowned the improvisers and the chords of the lute and the tres were heard in El Cornito, a place five kilometers from this city, where Juan Critóbal Nápoles Fajardo, the greatest poet of the 19th century on the Island, lived.
As every year - now with more vigor for the celebration of half a century of the event - Las Tunas was the capital of the decimal and everything related to the tradition of men and women of the Cuban countryside, reflected in poetry, music, visual arts, crafts, traditional games and dances, cuisine...

All this was evident in each of the evening spectacles; the first, dedicated to the election of the Birama Flower; the second, to Argentina; and third and last, to Nápoles Fajardo (El Cucalambé) and Jesus Orta Ruiz (El Indio Naborí).

The 20th Iber-American Colloquium on the Décina and the Improvised Verse Naborí was also dedicated to Naborí, as founder of the Cucalambeana Fiesta, as well as to researchers Virgilio López Lemus and Maximiliano Trapero, from the Canary Islands.
The Iberamerican Priza of Written Décima, was granted Carlos Esquivel and Alexander Aguilar for Los hemisferios contrarios (The opposing hemispheres), a collection of poems two hands-written; while in the Justo Vega Contest for Young Improvisers the winners were, in that order, Aramís Padilla, from Mayabeque; Geordanis Romaguera, Matanzas; And Liliana Rodríguez, Las Tunas.

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