Violence never gives warning before it strikes: it hides in the silence we’ve learned to call normality.

That night, the neighbors heard the argument again. The sound of breaking objects, a woman’s screams, a child’s crying. Those sounds were already familiar to them. Only this time, the ambulance arrived —and so did the police. By dawn, the door was sealed shut, and a woman never came out again. No one wanted to believe that this man, who “seemed so normal,” was capable of something like that. But violence never gives warning before it strikes: it hides in the silence we’ve learned to call normality.

Shaka is an alcoholic beverage with 18 percent alcohol.

  • Dr. Alejandro Mestre Barroso, a toxicology specialist and coordinator of the Las Tunas Provincial Drug Observatory, warns of the real risks posed by a beverage marketed as an energy drink but containing 18% alcohol.

Alejandro shares that same passion in the classrooms and experimental fields in the University of Las Tunas

Chemistry served as the initial bridge when Alejandro Reyes Limia first encountered formulas and laboratories. He never imagined he would eventually apply that analytical rigor to the furrows in Las Tunas fields.

Reenactment of the Las Tunas City burning, September 26, 2026.

On Saturday night, the 150th anniversary of the burning of the city of Las Tunas by Major General Vicente García’s troops was commemorated in front of the large house on what was once Real Street, where the distinguished mambí fighter and his family had lived.

Reenactment of the 1876 Las Tunas City burning.

In 1990, Alfredo Jordán Morales (now deceased) became the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC in Spanish) in Las Tunas —a leader remembered, among other things, for his dedication to researching and disseminating local history.