If Misleydi had wanted to do her makeup, she would have had plenty of time. She usually gets up between 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning and her husband, as always, makes (her) breakfast. This Saturday, December 11, your meeting would begin around 8:00, so I know how long you had. While he was brewing the coffee, she was combing her hair, although later she will be wondering in front of the Invasor's camera if she did it right. Doubt, ask for a touch-up: "oh sorry, I'm all messy, look at it, right?"

It is the only pose that is allowed. Everything else is so natural that she speaks from a low tone, even though she might still feel on the stage from which she has just stepped down being re-elected as First Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee in Venezuela. Misleydi Castillo Sánchez talks, she is not addressing a journalist. There is a difference in it and she knows it, which is why she smiles if I ask her about breakfast.

-Do he always or just today prepare breakfast because it is a special day?

-Not only breakfast, he is the one who always cooks, he did not know and had to learn, I do not have enough time. My daughter is already 18 and studies at the Pedagogic Institution; my mother is the one who washes the weekend, which are the two days that I take advantage of for tours. If my family did not support me, I do not know what they would do to me.

“It's that a lot of things come up during the week and after 5:00 in the afternoon I try to take advantage of the time to study documents, prepare some things. Of course, on Sunday afternoons I rest”.

—And in that time, you don't turn off your cell phone or put it on vibrator, at least?- (Smiles)

No, I can't. What if anything happens? She answers with another question.

It could happen: Misleydi is the show itself. It is true that when she took office she had already spent three years in the ideological sphere, another four as a civil servant, directing the sports team and a master's degree in Community Physical Activity, but she never thought that sport would take that leap. She did not have a preconceived career pointing to party leadership. I did not expect it to happen.

Moreover, today, which not only has it, but also (re) has it, it insists on keeping some things intact. Her husband is still the village barber, the one who can afford to cook, because she does not have the luxury of time. Her house, her fourth-floor apartment, and her pose, of course, that of a poseless woman.

The concerns and changes go in another direction. The milk delivery, for example, unveils it. So far brucellosis in cattle has not made anyone sick, but the risk keeps her alert; in the same way that the lack of control that has existed in the cattle mass. "Now it is being done for what is really in the pastures," he admits, aware of an inverse operation that has exacerbated the non-compliance of a sector that must also overcome the poor condition of the roads.

14 years ago, the Endogenous Project was a reality and the financing of Venezuela (country) expanded the coffers of the municipality, and those roads were fixed. They bought buses, 20 irrigation machines for agriculture, machinery for land preparation, markets were fixed, investments in culture were promoted...

However, time, obviously, also passed through Venezuela, and much of what had happened then has to be retouched, with no foreign budget already in place, and constraints that do not allow the miracle of solving accumulated pending issues.

Luckily, fishing, one of the essentials, comes out with a new ice plant, repaired boats and a change in structure. "There they breathe other airs, although they still have to diversify their productions", confesses the First Secretary.

Meanwhile, CubaSoy, the territory's flagship company, with an incomprehensible sway in its governing body, continues to employ almost 2,000 Venezuelans. “In the end, that is invariable, it doesn't matter if Agriculture is directed or the FAR; people continue to contribute and benefit not only with employment, because today there are better relationships and CubaSoy has solved other problems in the Sanguily community”.

Without time to recreate the events of the municipality, which is in some way his life, Invasor pauses Misleydi's words. She, perhaps, would have agreed to more time if she had not had several guests outside, waiting for her; or the father-in-law, a delegate to the same Assembly, with such uncontrolled blood pressure that it forced him to leave the room and go to the doctor; or if she was not oblivious to the phone “with a pile of calls for sure, because I didn't get him into the meeting. I must be about 20”.

—And surely 15 of those are from your husband, anxious to know if you are still in office. (I joke)

And she laughs more naturally than she already seemed.