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Written by Yuset Puig Pupo / Photos: Reynaldo López Peña

Published: 13 September 2025

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• Las Tunas University of Medical Sciences (UCM)
• UCM University College

The white of Dayan's twelfth-grade uniform shirt now blends in with the lab coats of the students at the University of Medical Sciences (UCM in Spanish) in Las Tunas. September found him working on a project that already ranks among the most notable of his 17 years. The University College has made him open up more to a dream that, he says, grew with him.

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Written by Esther De la Cruz Castillejo / Photos: Yaciel Peña de la Peña

Published: 09 September 2025

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• Piedra Hueca pumping station's administrator Omar Verdecia
• La Cana basin

The wheels of the van kicked up a lot of dust as it made its way to the La Cana basin. Between that, the potholes on the 3.5 kilometers of the battered embankment, the marabou bushes that almost seem to embrace each other on either side of the road, and the company of birds, the journey passed.

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Written by Yuset Puig Pupo

Published: 05 September 2025

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• portable power generators
• carbon monoxide emission

Amid the unyielding darkness of the block, “encouraged” by one of the many power outages, Elia started up her power plant for the first time. It came with all the sacrifices of a son abroad who had paid for the shipment a month earlier so that his family could sleep at night and, incidentally, avoid the annoying concomitance with the coal stove.

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Written by Esther De la Cruz Castillejo / Photo: Reynaldo López

Published: 03 September 2025

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• social indiscipline
• Cuban inflationary process

Lack of discipline in queues to buy food or other products is sadly deep-rooted.

The anecdote that inspired these lines happened several days ago, but it is undoubtedly a recurring theme in everyday life in Las Tunas. It turns out that eggs were sold at the Innovación store (foreign currency) in this city. The queue was immediate, as was the open disagreement of those who feel that selling them there is as unfair as the dynamics of wages, prices, active currencies, and that web of issues that deserve, more than a press commentary, a doctoral thesis.