Tobacco producers in Holguín accomplish the biggest crop in their history, since they have planted more than a thousand hectares in the current period. The 40 percent of this crop is in the Calixto García municipality.  

Considering the guarantee of fertilizers, irrigation systems, 250 new houses of cure and farmers’ experience, results are strongly reliable.

Tobacco for export gained 12 hectares in the municipality of Mayarí, where 80 percent of covered tobacco for this purpose is concentrated, crops that benefit from the East - West diversion.

Sagua de Tánamo producers will also obtain layers intended for international market. Holguín is the largest tobacco producer among the eastern provinces of the country. In recent years it has distinguished itself by the field productivity.

One hundred and thirty-seven years have passed since October 16th, 1882, when  Manuel Avilés Lozano founded La Bulla group, which was baptized shortly afterwards by the people as Avilés Brothers, since 12 out of 14 sons of the founder were part of the group as others renowned Holguín musicians like Manuel Dositeo Aguilera.

Under Mambí lineage, since almost all of his musicians joined the Necessary War and were part of the Invading Army Music Band, Aviles remained in time as one of Holguín's distinguished groups. Brindis de Salas, Mexican Jorge Negrete, Rosita Fornés and Pacho Alonso were some of the artists that accompanied the orchestra.

His first album would appear in 1967 with the Areito label entitled “Juanito Márquez and the Avilés Orchestra”, which includes several themes and rhythms popularized by this renowned Cuban composer such as the pacá rhythm. A legacy the orchestra resumed this year in its most recent record production under the Egrem label, along with other songs that became great hits.

The 137th anniversary of Aviles was also an occasion to celebrate the 70th birthday of Gastón Allen, a trumpeter, arranger and current director of the Avilés Orchestra, so as the 100th birthday of Benny Moré, in a tribute that took place at the Artex cultural center named after this rhythm expert.  

The hits repertoire of the legendary Avilés orchestra endorse its curse through the musical stave of the island and despite being centennial, it is commited to increasingly renew its format so it can reach young people with its unique rhythm, a national culture heritage.   

Only few hours after the death of prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso, personalities and institutions around the world have used social media to send their condolences to Cuba and the ballet.

Josep Borrell Fontelles, minister of foreign affairs, the Europe Union and Cooperation of the Spain Kingdom, who is on an official visit in Cuba, wrote on Twitter to be surprised in this country with “the loss of the dance legend Alicia Alonso, a unique and universal person who represented as no one before the artistic talent of Cubans.”

The national dance company of Mexico issued a statement regretting the sad loss of the ballerina, who created the Cuban National Ballet and is considered a legend of classic ballet; “we join dance community, family and friends in their sorrow”, it concludes.

The national institute of Arts and Literature of Mexico published on Twitter that classic dance is mourning because of the loss of prima ballerina Alicia Alonso, who collaborated with the national dance company regarding her chorographical version of Giselle.

Besides, the renowned Cuban dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta, on his official Twitter account, wrote an emotional message, just in few words he expressed what Alicia’s death meant for him: “mom is gone, the greatest star. Alicia Alonso…Immortal! ”.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of the republic of Cuba, few minutes after the news was published, wrote on Twitter his regrets for the loss of Alonso, expressing that “she left a great hollow but an insuperable legacy; she enabled Cuba’s position on the best of world dancing; thanks Alicia for your immortal work”, he twitted from Mexico, where he is on an official visit.

Iroel Sánchez, a Cuban engineer and journalist, wrote on this social web that, even as a world star, the prima ballerina assoluta remained in Cuba, she bet for her homeland and Revolution, then she offered her talent and disposal to serve her people, to whom she gave a universally prestigious ballet school with the Cuban soul as its core.

Meanwhile, Luis Morlote Rivas, president of the Cuba’s writers and artists union, expressed that with profound grief Cuban writers and artists say good-bye to the great Alicia Alonso, member of honor of this organization, who will be always remembered.

Moreover, the vice minister of foreign affairs Rogelio Sierra, reminded in the digital web what the Revolution leader Fidel Castro Ruz once said about the Cuban culture icon, who he named as “the silk hand that awakened the sleeping genius at the bottom of our people's soul.”