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Written by Yuset Puig Pupo / Photos: ReyLópez

Published: 20 July 2025

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• blood donations
• voluntary blood donors

Around 4:00 p.m., the ringing of the telephone made Nersa look at her watch. A request for blood had come in from Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital. An elderly woman in her 32nd week of pregnancy, with a high-risk pregnancy, had undergone emergency surgery due to bleeding. She didn't think twice. A mother was defending the possibility of having her child with her life, and she needed help.

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Written by Jorge Pérez Cruz / Photo: Ángel Chimeno Pérez

Published: 20 July 2025

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• aquaculture production

Bringing the fry to the reservoirs in Las Tunas is an obsession for mechanical engineer Alberto Marrero Velázquez, who, as a maintenance specialist in the Development and Technology Department of the Las Tunas Fishing Company (Pescatun in Spanish), leads a team that has worked—and continues to work—tirelessly on an interesting project that will fulfill this desire.

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Written by Yuset Puig Pupo

Published: 12 July 2025

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• 2024 Cuban Academy of Sciences Awards
• dermatologist Yordania Velázquez Ávila

To the pride of the people of Las Tunas, Dr. Yordania Velázquez Ávila, Doctor of Medical Sciences, was awarded one of the prizes issued by the Cuban Academy of Sciences in the category of Biomedical Sciences, as a result of her arduous research into the most notable scientific work carried out during 2024.

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Written by István Ojeda Bello

Published: 11 July 2025

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• gender violence

Sexual violence in Las Tunas increased last year compared to 2023, according to a report by the Cuban Observatory on Gender Equality, affiliated with the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI). The same source added that femicides decreased during this same period.