Las Tunas celebrates the new year 2025.

A poet says that one should not return to the place where one has been happy; then, we already know what to do with the good times, and how to save them from all harm, by not putting them at risk of some disappointment. However... what path do we take with the bad ones; how do we relieve ourselves, let them go, or think of them as they are for the most part: "things of the past", even if like stones they are revealed to us in the present?

An enchanting natural landscape can be seen from the hill, from a 180-degree angle.
An enchanting natural landscape can be seen from the hill, from a 180-degree angle.

In the heart of a plain, between the cities of Las Tunas and Manatí, stands a singular elevation, from where one can see the colorful crops of the peasants, and the prominence of the royal palm, Cuba's national tree.

Drugs: Better not to start.

This is not a story of hugs and happy endings. It is the voice of a boy who is right now standing up to that voracious scourge that is drug use. 26 wish him the strength so that each morning is a decision to never again, and we thank him for sharing his truth with us.

“Heroes are all, absolutely all those who do not believe in defeat. They are invincible heroes,” said Díaz-Canel.

“It would be a dream to come to this National Assembly of People's Power saying that we defeated the blockade and got off the spurious list of countries sponsoring terrorism, but that has no expiration date,” said Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic during the closing of the Fourth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the 10th Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power.

This Friday, the people demonstrated in Havana to demand their rights from the U.S. government

More than 500,000 people flooded Havana's Malecon this Friday to send, as a message across the ocean, a claim to the U.S. government against the blockade and the permanence of Cuba on the list of alleged state sponsors of terrorism.