Polymer research in Las Tunas

This story began, at least in its most intense phase, in a third-year classroom specializing in Clinical Analysis at the University of Medical Sciences in Las Tunas. Professor Alejandro Mestre arrived there to teach the Toxicology course, his task before them as he opened the first semester of the academic year.

Prices have been rising steadily at all levels.

It doesn't take much information to know that prices in Cuba, and of course, in Las Tunas, have been rising steadily... at least over the last five years.

Cuba marks World Population Day this July 11.

World Population Day is celebrated every July 11th, as an initiative of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The efforts to reverse the situation of housing construction have been insuficient.

Law 65, or the General Housing Law, promotes the possibility of every family having a comfortable home. The reality in Las Tunas shows there is still a long way to go.

The BRICS Group offers us an alternative to change the status quo, which is the result of centuries of colonial exploitation, paradigms of subjugation, and archaic institutions that consolidate the economic power of the world's elites

Speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the Session on the Environment, COP30, and Global Health, at the 17th BRICS Leaders' Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 7, 2025.