When only one year ago Sancti Spiritus province closed 2011 with one of the highest infant mortality rates in Cuba, 5.9 deaths per thousand live births, not even local authorities in charge of reversing this situation could have calculated that twelve months later the territory would halve that figure and become a reference for the entire nation.»

“We need rationality in the sugar harvest,” said Machado Ventura during the exchange held in Tuinucu with the leaders of the sector and government in the Cuban central province of Sancti Spiritus.»

Escambray reproduces photos of some of the most remarkable events of 2012 in S. S.»

With the startup of the Melanio Hernandez sugar mill, Sancti Spiritus joined the 2012-2013 harvest, campaign in which experts are confident that the sugar production in the territory could grow up to 15% when compared with the previous.»

Over a year ago, the facility known as Casa del Azucarero (Sugar Worker’s House), in the former Natividad sugar mill, in southern Sancti Spiritus, began to be called Casa del Vietmanita (Vietnamese’s House), a name that might sound  odd within the Cuban context.»

Crescencio Galañena Hernández was murdered in Argentina in 1976.»

Thousand residents of Yaguajay,  Sancti Spiritus, gave the final farewell this Thrusday to Cuban diplomat Crescencio Nicomedes Galañena Hernández, who was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9th, 1976.  He was later on murdered, and considered missing since then.»

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro published on Monday, October 22nd, a comment in which he ridicules what he names “the imperialist media coop” that have been speculating about his health for several days.»

From Monday 8:00pm to Wednesday 4:00pm, Zaza dam evacuated through the Cayajana gates more than 140 million cubic meters, a figure that reveals the magnitude of rainfall recorded in Sancti Spiritus and therefore the abundant runoff which came to Cuba’s main reservoir.»

Rancho Querete, las cuevas de Valdés (the Valdes’s Caves), la Solapa de Genaro and the Chalet Los Alamos, virgin landscapes of northern Sancti Spiritus, are becoming over time a permanent tourist attraction.»