Friday, 30 August 2019 19:07

Taking of Las Tunas: A Mambí Epic

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Because of its magnificent strategic position, this city was always a place to which Spain gave particular attention during the independence wars of the 19th century. For this reason, its military engineers protected it with barbed wire, forts, moats, infantry barracks, cavalry and artillery, and hundreds of soldiers armed to the teeth. They said, "We are impregnable."

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Roy Luis Molina Campos, director of this entity in Las Tunas, belonging to the Azcuba Sugar Group said that "it will be an important contribution to the efforts made by the country in the substitution of imports in areas where this kind of work can be done."

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