Bank worker María Luz Matos

April 30, 1994, was María Luz Matos Bravet's first day of work at Banco Popular de Ahorro (BPA by its acronym in Spanish); she remembers it with Swiss watch precision. "I didn't come to the bank looking for a job, but because it came knocking at my door," she recalls now, after almost three decades at the financial institution, and she is grateful for that first opportunity that has made her grow as a professional and a human being.

The first well in Las Tunas is under the pavement just in front of the library

Under the pavement of the side of the Vicente García Park, in front of the José Martí Provincial Library, was the first known freshwater well in this region.

A medical team "managed to save the lives of two pregnant teenagers in Las Tunas

Recently, a multidisciplinary team from the Dr. Ernesto Guevara General Teaching Hospital managed to save the lives of two teenage pregnant women who had spent several days with very unfavorable prognoses. 26 approaches the event.

Calixto Garcia and William Ludlow in Cuba 1898

One of the most important actions in the struggle for independence in the so-called War of 1895 was the attack and takeover of the former Victoria de las Tunas, which began on August 28, 1897, 126 years ago today, by the Mambí troops under the command of Major General Calixto García Íñiguez, military chief of the Eastern Department, with areas of operation such as Bayamo, Manzanillo, Las Tunas, Palma Soriano, Holguín, Niquero, and others no less important.