There are more than one imagines out there. Workers who assume complicated schedules and even sacrifices to fulfill their duty, especially when the satisfaction of many people depends on it. Pablo Saavedra Cabrera, a lineman for the Ciego de Ávila Electric Company, is one of them.

By kilometers and kilometers, if it were possible, the power lines assembled by Pablo throughout his more than 35 years of working life in the energy sector would be counted. However, beyond the cold quantification of the data, it is what each action represents when, for example, the replaced cable returns power to a community or changes a faulty transformer late at night, in those moments when the heat and the mosquitoes do their thing at home.

Of cyclones, Pablo says, he has lost count of his participation in order to recover the electrical infrastructure, the same in Vuelta Abajo plains as in the Guantanamo hills. Weeks away from the family and the comforts of home, but with the satisfaction of bringing, with their work, the vital service to the affected people. Moreover, outside the country.I

n these more than three decades of work, he has shown signs of his high commitment and responsibility. The five years as National Vanguard are an expression of this, and other decorations, to which is recently added being deserving of the Jesús Menéndez medal, which is awarded by the Council of State and the Cuban Worker Central.

A distinction that, according to Daniel Pérez García, general director of the Electric Company of Ciego de Ávila, comes too late, because the lineman had the merits to hold it for a long time, like other of his colleagues worthy of recognition.

In addition, his colleagues did not want the distinction to remain only in its imposition during the national act for the Day of the Electrical Worker in Sancti Spíritus. Nevertheless, they also gave him their signs of appreciation and respect in his work center of the Electric Plant of the provincial capital, as well as in his neighborhood, together with his relatives.

A man of few words but with the fiber of a leader, always among the first, jealous of the care of the technique, willing to help those who need it, a guide for young people initiated in the profession, Saavedra Cabrera is an example of consecration and humility for those who they know.