Carmen deserved the 2020 Memoria Viva AwardThe Provincial Directorate of Culture Centers (CPCC) in Las Tunas awarded the Memoria Viva Award (Living Memory) to three prominent cultural expression cultivators in their communities: Carmen Ramírez Álvarez, coordinator of the Raíces de San José Community Project (Las Tunas); Miguel Linch Foy, founder of the group Los Dandys del 50 (“Jesús Menéndez”), and Eddy Miranda Vega, founder and director of the Raíces Soneras group (Majibacoa).

Los Zahoríes Puppet Theatre

The start of important and longed-for projects, obtaining numerous awards, national and international tours, and the restoration of some theater halls, show that the calendar recently ended marked an important milestone for the performing arts in Las Tunas.

"Mi amiga Alicia"2019 said goodbye, but it left a spring of memories, some pleasant, some less. The culture, the seed of the people in the warp of time, evokes some of its prints in Las Tunas.

Fountain near Las Tunas railway station

The fountain near Las Tunas railway station, the first of its kind in the province, regains its vitality thanks to a large investment project that, in greeting to the 61st anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, intends to beautify the city environment and rescue works with distinctive value in the Balcony of the Cuban East.

2019 has been marked by the escalation of US hostility towards CubaThe exclusion of the Gente de Zona duo from a concert in Miami today marks the end of a year of escalation of US hostility towards Cuba, during which there were numerous attacks on cultural exchanges.