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Written by Yuset Puig Pupo

Published: 03 March 2025

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• Manatí municipality
• Las Carboneras rural community
• charcoal makers

Since time immemorial, the road to Puerto Manatí came with a familiar sighting: Las Carboneras, a small village of just 10 houses that set the pace of this line of business in the municipality. It was almost inevitable to notice the large furnaces a few meters from the road, the bare backs dressed in the steamy work, and the smoke as a barter of caress that foreshadowed the proximity of the coast.

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Written by Esther De la Cruz Castillejo / Photo: Rey López

Published: 03 February 2025

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• guana tree

Some experts say that the guana tree, after the prickly pear cactus, is the most representative of these lands. They also tell us that when walking around the city you will find a few specimens of this endemic tree of Cuba, which is intertwined with history and even appears in the local coat of arms.

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Written by Reynaldo López Peña

Published: 01 February 2025

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• social indiscipline

Social indiscipline is also on wheels... and it seems to have no brakes. These scenes of motorcycles and bicycle taxis parked where they shouldn't be and, in the case of the boulevards of the capital -and other places- affecting the public ornamentation, are already commonplace; not to mention the legal regulations that are violated.

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Written by Danielle Laurencio Gómez (ACN) / Photo: Yaciel Peña de la Peña

Published: 01 February 2025

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• Las Tunas Botanical Garden
• José Martí Trail

Under the name of “Sendero Martiano” (José Martí Trail), the Botanical Garden of Las Tunas treasures a project with the desire to pay tribute to José Martí through nature, which hopes to see its early materialization as a novel sociocultural initiative.