According to a report published in the newspaper Granma by journalist Jorge Luis Merencio Cautín (featuring documentary photography by Leonel Escalona Furones and the author himself), a critical alert has been issued from Guantánamo: the polymita snails—considered by many to be the mollusks with the most beautiful shells in the universe and exclusive to the eastern region of the country—face a severe threat of extinction. The ecological value of these terrestrial gastropods i