The 2026-2027 school year has begun.

With the unique students' enthusiasm, Las Tunas kicks off the new 2026-2027 school year. The main event of this return to the classroom took place at the Luis Urquiza Jorge Pre-University Vocational Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE), decorated to welcome its students and the province's main authorities.

Jiménez Espinosa knew what it meant to be by Fidel's side

Three decades have passed since March 31, 1996. Still, for Pedro Jiménez Espinosa, then a 35-year-old serving as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in the municipality of Jobabo, the memory of Fidel Castro Ruz's embrace still evokes an emotion as intense as the first day. "I say that right now, and my heart starts beating in a way that's indescribable," confesses Jiménez, who years later would become the top Party leader in the entire province.

Ph.D. in Educational Sciences Aleida Best Rivero.

She has the gaze of someone who has witnessed history firsthand, from a schoolyard, with the still-trembling hands of a 17-year-old girl who one day saw a giant walk in. Today, Aleida Best Rivero, with over six decades of teaching experience, recalls -with the delicacy of someone guarding a treasure- those two encounters with Fidel Castro Ruz that marked her life forever.

Fidel Castro's legacy is alive in Cuban children.

It might seem easy to speak of Fidel on his centennial; however, what constitutes his most tangible legacy, the Cuban Revolution, survives today amidst a colossal crisis and an economic situation with no short-term remedy.

Silvia del Rosario Gisbert Carreño, vice president of the Aclifim in Las Tunas.

Silvia del Rosario Gisbert Carreño is one of those people willing to help others face life with a higher quality. Today she is vice president of the Cuban Association of People with Physical-Motor Disabilities (Aclifim, in Spanish) in the province, but she has worked in various places performing different tasks, and she has put all of them into it.