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Written by Abel Julio Sastre Matos

Published: 06 October 2023

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On 4 October 1963, Hurricane Flora entered Cuba, classified as the second-biggest disaster ever recorded in the country. It moved across the eastern part of the island, making a loop over what are now the provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, and Camagüey. The torrential rains caused unprecedented flooding and caused the death of approximately two thousand people and serious material damage.

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Written by Naily Barrientos Matos

Published: 06 October 2023

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• Barbados Crime

Uncertainty gave way to certainty, and then to eternal pain; to the longing to see them arrive as they had dreamed, on October 6, 1976, when reality abruptly broke.

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Written by Abel Julio Sastre Matos

Published: 03 October 2023

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• retired cane cutter Petronila Alejandrina Almaguer Rojas

This Monday, October 2, Petronila Alejandrina Almaguer Rojas, the Cuban Queen of the Mocha, Heroine of Labor, and a legend of Las Tunas, passed away in the city of Puerto Padre.

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Written by István Ojeda Bello Photos: Reynaldo López Peña

Published: 02 October 2023

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• Family Code

"The history of people is not only written with their DNA but also with their emotions", emphasizes Leonardo Pérez Gallardo, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, to judges, lawyers, notaries, and other legal operators in Las Tunas. A year after the Family Code was approved by a popular referendum, the professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Havana is sure that there is still much to be done. With a similar scientific degree and rank in the same university, Yamila González Ferrer, for her part, insists on the need for a change of mentality that transforms into action the principles enshrined in a legal norm that made transparent the country we are and outlined the one we dream of, also in family matters.