Las Tunas City, the Cuban Eastern Balcony

Rural landscapes marked the geography of Las Tunas, and hamlets with eclectic styles formed the ephemeral city image of the historic center, in a city that barely reached 100,000 inhabitants. This land was that small village that served as a transit point to the Cuban East, a place where only small merchants converged and where guaraperas, hawkers of peanuts, frittatas, and other light food trends swarmed in traveling vehicles.

Journalist Ulises Espinosa Núñez

Ulises Espinosa Núñez joined the staff of 26 even before the newspaper was founded. He belongs to the select team of volunteer correspondents who pioneered print press in this province with more good intentions than real professional tools at their disposal.

Chilean activist Ignacio Flores.

Ignacio Flores was 26 years old when the coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende took place, and after that fatal event on September 11, 1973, he was persecuted and tortured as a revolutionary. Since then, he has not stopped fighting for the just causes of his people.

The aging population is a reality that is knocking on the country's door.

The announcement precedes him like the barking of the dog that two blocks before crossed his path and follows his trail, with very little confidence. "Cilantro, cilantro, cilantro..." The voice comes in choked on the third repetition. He gathers his strength and once again adorns his offer, as he tightens his nylon bag, and with it, he throws a burst at the impertinent canine.

Roberto Escobar Aparicio, a founder of the Periódico 26

He unquestionably does not accept interviews. He confesses that he has never liked advertising, but it turns out that he is the only founder of Periódico 26 who is still active, and from that first day he has worked hard to learn, at only 17 years old, to tame the risks and tortures of sitting for hours and hours in front of a linotype, with that smell of melted lead, the deafening noise and a heat impossible to avoid even in the blades of the fan.