Student Jennifer García.

These days, the name of Jennifer García, a student at the Luis Urquiza Jorge Pre-University Vocational Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE in Spanish), shines brightly beyond our borders.

The 2025-2026 school year is underway.

The 2025-2026 school year began this Monday with enthusiasm throughout Cuba. In Las Tunas, it had a special note: in the town of Calixto, municipality of Majibacoa, the “Eliécer Botello” opened its doors as a semi-boarding school after undergoing renovations.

The 2025-2026 school year begins this September 1st.

Around 80,000 students are returning to classrooms this Monday in Las Tunas, in a network of 630 schools spread across the eight municipalities. A day when the streets are filled with color and joy. Children, adolescents, and youngsters. All of them, on their way to embark on the path of knowledge, and with them, their families.

The new school year is just around the corner.

Yanela Yero Rubio welcomed us at the very door of what has been her school all her life. It turns out that this young woman, a graduate of Primary Education from the Rita Longa Pedagogical Institute, has been the director of the Eliécer Botello School, in Majibacoa, for the past two years. That place stands out as her unique workplace in her nine years of professional practice.

The Cuban Minister of Education in working visit to Las Tunas.

The Minister of Education, Naima Ariatne Trujillo Barreto, began her visit to Las Tunas in the municipality of Majibacoa, as part of a tour that will take her to various Cuban provinces to verify, along with her team, the preparations for the start of the 2025-2026 school year.