Juan Emilio Batista Cruz

With a photographic memory, Juan Emilio evokes, with a semicolon, the time he arrived at the Arena bar proclaiming his tamales, when a "casquito" (policeman), with tremendous drunkenness, hit him in the face and pushed him. He ended up on the floor on one side, and the bucket with the tamales on the other.

Vilma in Las Tunas

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the federated of Las Tunas retraced the route of Vilma in the province. They treasure living history that still springs from those who knew her. 

 Cerro de Caisimu, in Las Tunas

At 124 meters above sea level, right on the road that connects the municipality of Las Tunas with that of Manatí, in the north of the province, El Cerro de Caisimú (The Caisimú Hill) rises, one of the main elevations of the local geography, characterized by its vast plains. 

Elmer Almaguer passed away in Las TunasThe tragedy continues rounding up the journalistic community of Las Tunas. On the afternoon of August 22, Elmer Almaguer, a retiree of 26 Newspaper, passed away here, who dedicated several decades of his life to the job of formatting since the times when journalistic texts were composed in lead letters before being printed and the publication had its venue in the workshop on Colón Street.

Irma Vera fundadora

For more than five terms, Irma Vera González directed the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in the municipality of Jesús Menéndez. I still think I see her, in my childhood, empowered at her headquarters on 13th Street, in Chaparra.