Fidel shares with the builders of the old Guitart-Cayo Coco hotel, first one inaugurated in the Jardínes del Rey destination, on November 12, 1993 (Photo: Nohema Díaz)

A writer friend portrayed him in his image and resemblance.  He wrote that the force of imagination drags Fidel into the unexpected and the greatest stimulus in his life is the risking emotion.

He enjoyed the essence of his own thought, of doing what he says, in the more than 30 visits he made to Ciego de Ávila. Since that January 5, 1959, in his triumphal passage to the west at the head of the Liberty Caravan, until July 26, 2002, when he arrived in the province and presided over the National Central Act for the XLIX anniversary of July 26, in old Abel Santamaría Square, today Major General Máximo Gómez Báez.

The force of his imagination guided him into the unforeseen events that the mere fact of standing in front of the sea and saying: "Here you have to throw stones without looking forward" would have been one of the many challenges of the Commander-in-Chief.  Throw stones at the sea!  Let`s imagine.

A phrase rode on the impossible and that is how the era of causeways began, which would extend the geography of the national territory by hundreds of kilometers: causeway Isla de Turiguanó-Cayo Coco, north of Ciego de Ávila; Caibarién-Cayo Santa María, in Villa Clara and Jigüey-Cayo Romano-Cayo Cruz, in Camagüey.

He ventured through the less-thought-paths of northern Cuba and reached where he proposed, in a hurry and without fear, full of dreams that he turned into realities only imagined by him, a reflection of the emotion of the risks that he never abandoned.