Today, the Government of the United States announced several measures, positive ones but of a very limited scope, with respect to Cuba in terms of visas, regular migration, flights to provinces, remittances and adjustments to regulations for transactions with the not state sector.

At 81 years old, Margarita still makes cheese in an artisanal way and ensures the continuity of a centuries-old tradition by sharing the "secrets" of making a distinctive product for its aroma, flavor and texture, recognized as family heritage.

A team of journalists is touring the Ciego de Ávila`s geography, together with the members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, who began a comprehensive visit to the province on Monday.

The role of party and union organizations in the implementation of the 43 measures aimed at promoting the development of the business sector was highlighted during the comprehensive visit of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party (CCPCC) to the municipality of Morón.

The quality of life in rural communities and the diversification of recreational options for the population are other topics of interest in the comprehensive visit to Ciego de Ávila by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party and its auxiliary structure.

Under a persistent drizzle that, at times, threatens to become intense, five teams from the Invasor Newspaper are touring the Ciego de Ávila`s geography, together with the members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, who will begin a comprehensive visit to the province on Tuesday.

At noon this Monday, the comprehensive visit of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCPCC) and its auxiliary structure began in Ciego de Ávila, which will cover the 10 municipalities and will last until the 19th.

Despite the limitations of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, the diesel deficit, the current difficult economic scenario and the impact of illegalities, the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) in Ciego de Ávila generates more than 70 percent of the food for the population of the province.

This Sunday, the deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power (parliament) of Cuba approved the Law of Penal Execution, in order to complete the deep procedural and judicial reform of the country.

As simple as having a mobile device or computer capable of connecting to the national network, it is now possible to validate a copy of a university degree for graduates of the University of Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez (UNICA). Since last January, it became enabled the UniLegal platform, which comes to simplify a procedure that, finally, sometimes ended up being a real headache for many.

The field hockey family in Ciego de Ávila could celebrate another great triumph in a few days: this Sunday, it dawned with the news that the specialists in charge of installing the synthetic layer in what will be their new training and national and international competitions “headquarters”, are already here.

This Monday, May 16, the application of the second dose of the polio vaccine in the current campaign begins, to children between 30 days and two years of age, in addition to the reactivation for nine-year-old infants.

The lights of my country

The strength of a country is measured by its affections. There is no greater nobility of spirit than the union of a feeling, especially in dark times and collective mourning.

“After eight months paralyzed by serious difficulties with imported raw materials, the start-up of the 50th anniversary Creole dry feed factory, located in the capital city of Ciego de Ávila, constitutes a significant step towards the return of pork in the province”. Statement made by Melvys Martín Jiménez, director of the Authorized Food Base Business Unit (UEB), belonging to the Pig Company (EP) of Ciego de Ávila.

The painful search for the victims of the accident at the Hotel Saratoga has ended. All Cubans were as one in pain during six days. Solidarity marked every second around the victims and their dear relatives again, and as so many times in our history.

Although there are no reported cases in Cuba or Ciego de Ávila at the time this note is being written, the health system maintains epidemiological surveillance to detect in time and prevent the transmission of the so-called Acute Hepatitis in Children, Dr. José Luis López González, deputy director of Epidemiology of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology, said.

On the occasion of the deep pain of our people in the face of the unfortunate accident that occurred at the Saratoga Hotel on May 6, in which 44 compatriots and one Spanish citizen have lost their lives to date, and after the rescue actions were completed, the President of the Republic of Cuba agreed to decree an OFFICIAL MOURNING from 06:00 on May 13 until 12:00 at night on May 14.

For Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province that the pineapple reigns again in Ciego de Ávila fields is a priority. Photo: Osvaldo Gutierrez

Two local development projects that strengthen ties with the community in which it is located and another that seeks to diversify pineapple production today mark the course of the Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila (UNICA), for which it continues to be a challenge to contribute more to the socioeconomic development of the province.

 After two years without the biggest book and literature festival touching Ciego de Ávila soil, from May 19 to 22 the joy of inked pages will return, with the inauguration here of the XXX Book Fair, which will put authors to dialogue with the public and will make the promotion a space for common enjoyment.

At the beginning of the Round Table program, the Minister of Internal Trade, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, expressed condolences on behalf of her organization to the relatives of the people who died in the explosion at the Saratoga hotel, which occurred on May 6.

Inaugurated in 1960 and recognized among its kind in Cuba, the Camilo Cienfuegos Base Business Unit (UEB), located in the main municipality of Ciego de Ávila and distinguished by its commercial name, Muebles Lídex, today concentrates most of its efforts in four projects with local tourism, without neglecting its state orders with other sectors.

Family farming is promoted in Morón

With 3,092 yards and 242 active plots, Morón advances in small-scale food production, as part of the municipal self-sufficiency strategy, which places the initiative of families at the center.

When Decree 35/2021, on the Marketing of Agricultural Products came into force, we already knew of empty squares, debts and defaults, food lost in the furrow and a marketing system that sometimes left the peasant in a bad position.

The repair of several educational institutions, with emphasis on those of the Primary educational level located in rural areas, is one of the priorities of the Municipal Directorate of Education in Morón, together with the economic plan of that territory.

"I bring the fraternal and supportive embrace of the Cuban citizens to the beloved Venezuelan people," the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, upon arriving this Monday in the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on an official visit that will last until next May 11, said.

The preliminary ideas for the elaboration of the Policy for digital transformation in Cuba and the Cuban Digital Agenda 2030 were analyzed by the members of the National Innovation Council (CNI), at its meeting corresponding to May.

A beautiful and somewhat mystical coincidence wanted that on May 9, 1920, when Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Cuba, that "rebellious" girl who would be maternal protection of the nation.

The grayish stream of water that comes out of the pipe looks like liquid cement, but in reality, it is water from the Chambas River that will end up in the water table as waste from the water treatment plant that is "halfway" between the pumping station of Los dogs and the people of Punta Alegre.

The XL edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITCuba 2022, recently concluded at the América Convention Center Square, in Varadero, in the province of Matanzas, constituted an opportunity for the socialization of experiences between managers and specialists of the Cubanacán Hotel Group.

According to the political authorities of the province and the management of the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial Hospital in Morón, in the coming months more than 50 companies and budgeted units such as Emprestur and the Food Industry will deal with the repair of rooms and services of the institution of health.

As part of the political movement "Beating for the people, without losing a day", state companies, organizations and new economic actors pool resources and efforts for the systematic repair and maintenance of the general provincial teaching hospitals of Ciego de Ávila.

After two years without being able to enjoy the biggest book and literature festival in Cuba, the 2022 International Book Fair revived the joys for the authors and the public, who experienced the typical agitation of this event in the capital, official stop before embarking on his tour of all the provinces of the country.

In Cuba, unlike other countries, “there is no trend towards multiple employment,” even though since 2009 it has been legalized as a work alternative.

Until Saturday, April 7, the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets of Ciego de Ávila will be held the “Art for Mom” Fair at the House of the Young Creator of the Saíz Brothers Association, in order to celebrate Mother's Day next Sunday.

The second edition of the Pío Leyva In Memoriam Festival, with festivities inscribed within the framework of the Culture Week of the municipality of Morón, will take place in the province of Ciego de Ávila with the aim of rescuing the son tradition in this territory.

The Júcaro Marine Fishing Fleet UEB stops paying in other ports for stays (Photo: Ortelio)

Pulled by a powerful winch and a thick, resistant steel cable, the ship climbs two rails that sink to the bottom of the sea. The pulley screeches as the hull advances towards the mainland, distills water and reveals itself, rusty and battered for so long at the mercy of the depths.

Cuba does not report any case of acute childhood hepatitis of unknown origin that circulates in the world, but health authorities are already alert and vigilant in the face of this outbreak, the national director of Public Health Epidemiology, Francisco Durán García, said on Monday.

The governments of Popular Power in the municipalities of Florencia and Chambas will have a new technological tool to project progress in mountainous areas, upon delivery of the connectivity management plans belonging to the Bamburanao Special Region for Sustainable Development (REDS).

When it finally seemed that the Covid-19 gave a break to education in Ciego de Ávila so that students and teachers could return to the classrooms protected by the new "normality", the current situation with urban and inter-municipal transport, given the instability with fuel, has put on a tightrope the presence of those who reside in communities far from the student centers and set off the alarms for those responsible for guaranteeing the quality of the teaching-educational process.

Ciego de Ávila woke up this Sunday with the news: Tigres greet May 1^st at the top of Cuban baseball, the local press highlights.

The pause imposed by COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila was broken on May 1^st by a massive, colorful and enthusiastic parade, which filled the streets and the Máximo Gómez square, as if two years had not passed since the last time.

The last time that the Revolution Square was seen crowded was on May 1, 2019. The world always looks strangely at the parade that takes place in Cuba for International Workers' Day. Perhaps because in all latitudes people do not live the same. The last photo of the entire country walking through the squares, with flags, posters, with music, without masks... was that May 1st, 3 years ago.

Just a few hours before the start of the World Proletariat Day, the celebrations have already begun in Ciego de Ávila. In the Popular Council of Ceballos, in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila, as in other communities in the province days before the date, the people took over the streets and squares with their colors and allegorical initiatives.

In mid-April, Ciego de Ávila concluded the popular consultation process for the Family Code project, which, according to the provincial electoral authorities, was carried out as planned and with good results.

This Thursday, workers from the different unions of this central province of Cuba participate in days to beautify their workplaces to wait for May 1^st, when all gathered together will say yes for the Revolution.

Expanding studies on historical and cultural heritage drives the International University of Andalusia (UNIA) and its Antonio Machado headquarters in Baeza (Jaén, Spain), and the University of Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez, which recently reactivated the exchange relationship, collaboration and cooperation.

Upon receiving the trophy accrediting the Blue Park Award, in the Golden category, the Jardines de la Reina National Park was confirmed as the 21st oceanic protected area in the world and the only one in Cuba to obtain this award, conferred by the Marine Conservation Institute of the USA.

That afternoon-night, when Misdalys López Marrero rushed out of her bathroom after noticing the flickering of the lights, she had already sensed the worst of her fears; minutes later the refrigerator machine would confirm it, by not starting at all.

The actions carried out for eight years by the participants in the international project Connecting Landscapes in the special region for sustainable development (REDS) Bamburanao, in the center of the country, achieve an impact on the conservation of this mountainous ecosystem and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.

The red flag with the emblem of the trade union movement and the slogan Cuba Lives and Works, the main motto of the imminent May 1^st party, toured the streets, historic places and workplaces of the Ciro Redondo municipality, located in the center of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, congratulates Liván Izquierdo Alonso, who at the end of last March was elected the highest political authority in Ciego de Ávila

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Party and new first secretary in the province of Ciego de Ávila, upon arrival in the territory finds tall grass in the fields, decreased dairy and agro-sugar production; sky-high prices, tourism diminished by the global economic crisis, Covid-19 and the stubborn US economic blockade against Cuba. It also finds Ciego de Ávila`s citizens eager to do things and convinced that "the day there is no combat will be a day wasted or misused."

The May 1^st parade will be an opportunity for the workers of the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital, members of the block that will march at the forefront in the province of Ciego de Ávila, to reject the limitations imposed by the US blockade on the development of the medicine in Cuba.

With the eyes of an artist, Javier Bravo Rojas observes his farm La Idalia ―at the foot of the section of the Bamburanao mountain range that crosses the territory of Chambas, right in the Rincón de Mabuya― and imagines shapes and colors that later shape his hands and those of his family.

At the foot of eventual pipes and old wells, the brains that inhabit the Majagua community of La Teresita, were about to become water. For 14 years, the absence of the liquid through an Aqueduct network, kept almost sixty houses dry (currently, 162 people). There, in that rocky strip, in that squalid arm that breaks off from the Central Highway, with full tanks like an oasis, the luxury of a spouting faucet was practically unthinkable.

Today, I woke up thinking about a question that a friend from the "job" asked me a few days ago. Why do we celebrate this May 1^st? After two years on hiatus due to the pandemic, next Sunday, the call to parade in our squares has many personal, social and authentic reasons that I would like to share as I did with my children:

To put speed, without this undermining the quality of the works, and to be detailed in everything that is done for the people of Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in the province and Governor Tomás Alexis Martín were called.

Of course, there are not a few dissatisfactions of Ciego de Ávila`s inhabitants in recent weeks on the subject of High Prices and speculation.

A bottle of oil at 600 or 700 pesos, a package of chicken at 800, a bag of yellow milk at a thousand…, ads and offers that come to you from any network, both the one they call “social” and are built from anonymity of the internet like that other one that goes from mouth to mouth around the neighborhood and "solves" you, or rather, resells you, five pounds of rice at the end of the month.

From the policy of promoting the professional work of the Party to cadres of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) with adequate trajectory and results, as well as in correspondence with the planned renewal process, it was submitted to the consideration of the National Committee —by the consultation method—a new cadre movement in the youth political vanguard.

In the hills of Florencia, if you ask for Yamilé Oria Hernández, you may never find her; instead, inquire about countrywoman and you will immediately have references to one of the most recognized women in the area, dedicated for more than 10 years to pig farming and promoter of harmonious practices with the environment.

Now, those attending the José Ramón Cepero stadium in Ciego de Ávila can enjoy classic products or Artex stars related to Ciego de Ávila baseball; initiative completed in less than a week, which supports the communication campaign #LatirAvileño.

The most recent publications of the Ministry of Economy and Planning, added three new micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and a non-agricultural cooperative (CNoA) in Ciego de Ávila, with which the province reached 62 of these new actors, just when 3,074 have been approved in the country since the beginning of this process in September 2021.

The month of April brought good news for Ciego de Ávila`s citizens. They will be able to extract cash from their bank accounts associated with a magnetic card, without having to go to an ATM or a bank branch, thanks to the Extra Cash service. An option that is available at 56 warehouses in the province and which can be used, for the time, by users of the EnZona payment platform.

The festival of the world proletariat is approaching. Moreover, collectives and outstanding workers in union work, production, research, teaching and services, as part of the activities for the important day, are honored in Ciego de Ávila.

In the province of Ciego de Ávila, the digitization of the different Consumer Registry Offices (Oficodas) continues with the O.R.E.G.I computer system, now in version 2.2.

The Revolution is an immense work defended by the workers and the people as the main protagonists. Such conviction was reaffirmed in the tribute activity to the group of the Provincial Company of Legal Services of Ciego de Ávila, which ratified the condition of National Vanguard.

With the delivery of the national distinguished recognition to the workers of Musicávila, this group is the only one of the Culture Union in Ciego de Ávila that has so far held such a high distinction in the socialist emulation of 2021.

Knowing the story narrated by the combatant Diosdado Morales Camacho, immerses those who listen to him in a gallery of images that allow them to travel through the most important events of the Cuban Revolution.

With the blood of its most courageous sons, the country has written glorious pages of its history. A cunning setback took the lives of seven Cubans, some of them very young, on April 15, 1961 in the bombing of the airports of Ciudad Libertad, San Antonio de los Baños and Santiago de Cuba, in what would be the prelude to an invasion.

Cuba applies modern surgery and eye care techniques, some with a significant impact on the recovery time of patients, according to what was revealed in the sessions of the Ciego de Ávila chapter of the 1st. Traveling National Congress of Ophthalmology.

This Sunday, the first celebration of Ponle Corazón program fromCiego de Ávila´s Television was held at the Provincial Museum of Decorative Arts, dedicated to World Monuments and Sites Day, which is celebrated every April 18.

During this week of school break, art instructors from the Culture Houses system in Ciego de Ávila will give art appreciation workshops.

With the training of undergraduate professionals in 35 careers, in various study modalities, including daytime courses, meetings, distance courses and short-cycle programs, the 2022 course in Higher Education begins on April 18 in Ciego de Ávila.

After the attack on Cuban airports and the historic burial of the victims, yesterday it was exactly 61 years of the invasion to the island by Playa Girón, center-south of the country, financed by the United States.

As part of the development of renewable sources and the efficient use of resources, photovoltaic energy hiring to the residential and state sector in Ciego de Ávila, Ulises Gutiérrez Ramírez, main specialist of the normalization and efficiency group of the National Office for the Control and Rational Use of Energy (ONURE) in the province, reported.

Niorgen Buchillón García, loader operator, a 24-carat man

He leaves his house with the irresolute idea of ​​not knowing when he will return, as happened with one of the last trains he loaded. It began at nine at night and ended after twelve, "so that he would not be late."

Students, teachers, researchers and the public, in general, have a new tool at their disposal to learn about facts, figures and processes of the past with the book Ciego de Ávila Provincial Historical Synthesis, a text that contributes to the improvement of the teaching of local history, applied at all educational levels.

According to agreement 9266 of 2022 of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, before April 30 of this year the digital signature mechanism will have to be used in the organs, agencies of the Central State Administration, the Central Bank of Cuba, all entities national and local bodies of People's Power.

With the realization of the 548 assemblies foreseen in the schedule, the popular consultation process of the Family Code Project, which began last February, concluded in the municipality of Morón.

It might seem that the tranquility of Elviro Miranda Pérez, head of Electro-medicine at the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial Hospital, in Morón, is routine, in the midst of the tests of the second oxygen generation plant installed there.

The Plenary Session of the Provincial Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Ciego de Ávila, in an extraordinary session, elected Nailyn Machado Álvarez for the position of first secretary of the youth organization, replacing Lianet Pazo Cedeño, who until then had that responsibility and was promoted to National President of the Pioneers.

With the application of the Anti-COVID-19 vaccine to those allergic to Thiomersal, in its 10 municipalities, Ciego de Ávila consolidates the immunization process of its entire population against the SARS CoV-2 virus.

The Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP) made the decision, endorsed by Resolution Number 81 of 2022, to establish the decentralization of an important range of retail prices in Cuban pesos that are marketed by chain stores and other related entities.

In just a few months, Yunet Pérez has become a successful woman with the launch of bath and washing soaps, soap shavings, soap shavings, creams and oils, conceived manually from natural elements with medicinal and beneficial properties for sensitive skin.

Adolescents will receive anti-COVID-19 reinforcement in Cuba

This Wednesday, some 848,000 adolescents in Cuba, between 12 and 18 years old, who have completed six months of the complete primary vaccination schedule, will receive the booster dose of the national anti-COVID-19 immunogenic drugs.

Next April 15, Good Friday, is a day of work break with salary payment, in accordance with the provisions of Law 116 of the Labor Code, of December 20, 2013, in its Article 100.

In ten provinces of our country, the BA-2 variant of Omicron circulates, which, although it maintains less virulence, is the one with the highest contagiousness, hence it is necessary to maintain hygienic-sanitary measures in order to avoid the disease, even when in Cuba the trend is towards a decrease in positive cases.

The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the US government hinders the aqueduct and sewage services in the country, denounced the main directors of the Superior Organization of Business Management (OSDE) Water and Sanitation, in a recent visit to Ciego de Ávila.

A meeting with the main authorities of the municipality of Morón was held by the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, Livan Izquierdo Alonso, accompanied by his predecessor Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez.

With voluntary work days in prioritized tasks of the economy, the coming Sundays, April 17 and 24, continue the productive, union and social actions that are carried out in Ciego de Ávila as a tribute to May 1st, International Workers' Day.

To look at and analyze with a critical eye and without triumphalism the work of the Party, to recognize its strengths and the permanence of the principles that sustain it as the bow of Cuban socialism, that is what the continuity of the 8th was about. Congress in each of our provinces.

The status of Collective National Interest, obtained in 2016 and ratified during 2019, 2020 and 2021 ―with an intermediate period (2017-2018) of recognition as distinguished in the country―, constitutes only a motivation to perform successfully in assistance and legal advice to legal entities.

The constitution in Havana of the Comprehensive Sanitation and Rehabilitation Services Company (ServiVIP), the first private entity (MSME) of its kind in the country, expresses the will to improve the quality of water and sewage services.

With the realization of a walk from the José Martí Park to the Máximo Gómez Báez Revolution Square, in Ciego de Ávila, the commemorative activities for the day of the working class, the coming May 1st, continued this Saturday morning.

With the delivery of the Raúl Gómez García distinction to Gualberto Domínguez Pérez and a recognition from Musicávila to the quintet Strings and Voices from the Plain, the 12 anniversary of the popular peasant group from Ciego de Ávila was celebrated this Saturday at the "María, la matancera" event.

With the text "The kingdom of solitude, a company book", Ciego de Ávila writer Fernando Díaz Martínez is working intensely on the last details of his most recent publishing novelty, commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Although it seems that as of March 29, the number of positive cases for COVID-19 began to decline in Ciego de Ávila, the 96 patients last Wednesday came close to the streak of 100 again and showed that it is still early to end the spike in infections.

When Ciego de Ávila headed the worst headlines, with the highest infant mortality rate in the country in 2021 —13.6 per thousand live births— we crowned the dangerous spiral that we had escalated in recent years: fewer births and more deaths.

More than 200,000 Ciego de Ávila citizens will participate in the parades for May 1st, International Workers' Day, and will confirm that Cuba also lives and works in the 10 municipalities of the province, after two years of celebrating the event virtually due to the effects of COVID-19.

Almost faster than the shutter of the camera, that is intruding its zoom in the city, the panorama of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila has been revealed. A flash and it shows one thing, another flash and it shows the same thing: the lack of perception is a fixed photo and not even all the bursts we have had have served to repair the sad album that some carry in their memory.