In September 2008, the Lighthouse “Faro de Lucrecia” became news again. Stoic, irremovable, it withstood the strong winds of hurricane Ike which made landfall near Cabo Lucrecia, in the municipality of Banes, Holguin province. There, close to the Atlantic coast, in the area known as "the cemetery of the living,” the lighthouse makes way defying time.

Since the triumph of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, US policy towards the nation has been designed to suffocate Cuba’s economy and thereby force regime change.

When most people in Bayamo were still asleep early Sunday morning, September 1, the young doctor Zoila Verdecia left home in her white coat, on the way to one more shift in the emergency room.“I left Samuelito, asleep, out cold.

The revelation a few months ago of the discovery by a group of scientists from Malaysia, Japan and Thailand that the electronic song 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' by the American DJ Skrillex is "noisy enough to reduce the attack and mating of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (Aa), brings in suspense many people here, who instead follow the prevention measures make louder the boisterous music to scare off that harmful vector.