Las Tunas historic center

A married couple who had just arrived from a municipality asked: "Where are they selling detergent and oil around here? There, at the Gúmer store," a passerby walking along the Boulevard in the city of Las Tunas told them.

 Las Tunas celebrates the 225 anniversary of its foundation.

I had to go see it against any challenge. I did not want to imagine it behind the legend or resurfacing like the phoenix after being burned by its bravest sons of independence. Nor did I want to assume that it was colored with crowds in its main streets and shops. Simple, I wanted to savor its reopening, just a few days away from adding another year to the calendar of life, 225.

UN General Assembly Hall while pre-recorded message by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is delivered.

Statement by H.E. Mr. Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the General Debate of the Seventy-Sixth Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly. September 23rd, 2021.

 Vehicles have been adapted to give an effective response to the current health situation.

Great solutions are born out of necessity, says popular wisdom. The COVID-19 has, then, put us the highest ceiling to exercise creativity and ingenuity that daily save Cubans from countless difficulties.