Mailé with her Rihanna Luz

“The girl was infected through me; it is very sad to go through that and the pain is not measurable. These are the words of Mailé Yicel Báez Ferrera, a young mother from the province of Las Tunas, whose 9-year-old daughter got infected with the COVID-19, which equally hurts people of different ages.

"Elsa" put to the test Las Tunas gears against weather events

Someone commented that Tropical Storm Elsa was named after an elementary teacher. That statement may have been fulfilled for this eastern Cuban province because the meteor left no material or human damage here; but, as a good teacher, its real threat put to the test the protocols in the face of extreme weather events, in the middle of a worse storm: a spike in COVID-19 transmission.

Cuban cigar manufacturing is hindered by the U.S. blockade

In an acclimatized chamber, about 300 thousand cigars made in the province of Las Tunas for sale in the international market "sleep"; but, once again, the effects of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade that the United States Government maintains against Cuba are hitting.

Manuel Herrera was the first historian of Victoria de Las Tunas

Manuel Antonio Herrera Martínez, historian and cultural promoter par excellence, became one of the personalities who would lay the foundations for future historical studies in the province.