The Pinilla rum warehouse in the former Victoria de las Tunas, now the 26 de Julio Memorial Museum, was the place chosen by the revolutionaries of the seventh zone to create the M-26-7.
The Pinilla rum warehouse in the former Victoria de las Tunas, now the 26 de Julio Memorial Museum, was the
place chosen by the revolutionaries of the seventh zone to create the M-26-7.

Shortly before the attack on the Moncada Barracks, the people of Las Tunas had begun to show their dissatisfaction with the coup regime installed in Cuba on March 10, 1952. The high orthodox leadership hardly contested that traitorous coup. But its most radical members did. Consequently, several of them met in January 1953 on the upper floors of La Cubana bar to break with the politicking that undermined the party founded by Chibás.

Journalist Oscar Herrera

Nearing his 75th birthday, Oscar Herrera strikes me as a simple, curious, and jovial man, who has never let the innate journalist in him sleep completely. Perhaps because of this (and because habit is usually a beautiful vice), he inquires about the origins of the surname we share and who is the girl who now calls him "cazador" instead of "cazado". Meanwhile, I look at his whitish mustache and hair, and I wonder how many stories this founder of the press in Las Tunas treasures.

Cuba's Children's Day

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Today, the third Sunday of July, is Children's Day in Cuba. May these images serve as congratulations and always protect hope and innocence.

Funerary art at Major General Vicente García Municipal Cemetery, Las Tunas.

Major General Vicente García Municipal Cemetery, due to its significant samples of funerary art and its relevance for the history of Las Tunas, constitutes the most important necropolis in the province, and a site of incalculable value for the conservation of past-times memory.

Format designer Elmer Almaguer Paneque

Whenever we used to close together in the then 26 daily, at the end of the 80's of the last century, Elmer Almaguer Paneque and I tried to impose our different position in the way of using the color red with greater sanity; but above all supported by the knowledge we had of design and perhaps fleeing from the norm that existed, very generalized, of the use of red indiscriminately.