This image made me think about how much time has passed, but above all, it has taken me back 44 years, to the commemoration of the first anniversary of the newspaper 26, today a weekly, founded on July 26, 1978.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The image was taken on the terrace of the building marked with the number 157, of Colón Street, in this city, where the newspaper was located, precisely in the same place that today occupies the provincial Radio Victoria radio station.

It was exactly on July 26, 1979, the day on which we euphorically celebrated the first year of the newspaper, born with the inexperience of the collective, but above all, by the courage of those who had the first responsibility to accept that challenge forever inscribed as one of the most important events in the history of revolutionary journalism in the current province of Las Tunas.

I remember that it was a hot night, in the middle of summer, I was a complete accomplice of all of us who was there, celebrating an unprecedented event, and with the youthful enthusiasm that characterized us, because I am not exaggerating if I say that at least 95 percent of those who made the newspaper were in our twenties. And to have walked with many stumbles, but with success that first year, well deserved a party, and we did it in style, with music, food, beers, and much joy.

It was Friday, and that day we had brought forward the publication of the Saturday newspaper so that everything would be ready early in the evening so that our colleagues who worked in the press (who in all the newspapers in Cuba were affectionately called the Lions) would have the possibility of finishing their work to participate in the party.

I know that at that party there was a whole group of 26 and several guests, and in the case of the photo I am showing you, I will expand a little more on who they were and who they are today, 45 years later.

I begin with those who were seated. Andrés Castellanos, first from right to left, journalist who was with us at the newspaper until the 90s and was a member of the economic team; then he went to work as a reporter at Radio Libertad, in Puerto Padre. Ramiro Segura (second) was the head of the political-ideological team, and since 1988 the director, now retired.

In third position was "Viejo" Abel Fernández, a typographer and a great teacher of the graphic arts in these parts, who was with us for many years until his retirement, quite late, and died at an advanced age about 20 years ago.

Julio César Pérez Viera (fourth), journalist of the political team, today correspondent of Radio Progreso in the province of Las Tunas. Next to him Eduardo Infante, a super-intelligent man, the soul of the mechanics in the workshop, now retired and out of the country.

Standing from right to left are Norge Santiesteban, photojournalist; Juan Emilio Batista, sports reporter, now deceased; Luisito Arias, driver; Raul Estrada, reporter of the political team, retired; and me, who was not yet a journalist, but a photoengraver. I do not recognize the two behind me.

Of those who are not in the photo, I remember other founders such as Rossano Zamora Paadín, head of Information; José Infante Reyes, the director, and Nelson Marrero Pupo, deputy director (now deceased); journalists Ulises Espinosa Núñez, Juan Soto Cutiño, Freddy Pérez Pérez, Oscar Góngora Jorge, Wálner Ortega Batista, Yolanda Vázquez, photoengraver Alexis Peña López, typographer Melo, brothers Alcides and Melquíades, two of the Leones (Lions); linotypists Roberto Escobar and Justo Peña. ... and forgive those I have not mentioned because they do not come to mind, but to all those who started I offer my small and humble tribute with this note.