Accountability is a basic principle of the People's Power system in Cuba and, consequently, for the second time in his term, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of Ciego de Ávila, put his management in the last year under scrutiny, which complies with article 177 of the Constitution of the Republic and Law 138 on the Organization and Functioning of the Provincial Government of People's Power.

Entitled "Ability to diagnose dermatological diseases in residents of the dermatology specialty", this award-winning research was carried out and applied at the Provincial Hospital of Ciego de Ávila.

It was with its sights fixed on the communities far from the provincial capital and with less forms of connectivity that the Territorial Division of ETECSA in Ciego de Ávila was able to be fairer and generate a greater impact amid the limitations that 2022 brought.

In recent weeks, citizens who go to the country's processing offices to inquire about the possibility of an increase in the price of the current passport or the limitation of the acquisition of the travel document by a certain group of people have become recurring. Faced with this situation, the Directorate of Identification, Immigration and Aliens (DIIE) of the Ministry of the Interior reiterates that the procedures and formalities established by the Law in this regard are maintained and no change in its cost is foreseen immediately.

The importance of achieving municipal autonomy from the economic point of view and ceasing to be a territory with a deficit to become one with a surplus, based on the existing conditions and the potential of the agricultural and sugarcane sectors, was one of the points discussed in the first session of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power (AMPP) of Baraguá, after being constituted the present legislature.

The local development project Servtes-Desarrollo, from the municipality of Morón, in Ciego de Ávila, strengthens its work in the strategic axes of the Cuban economy by guaranteeing the vitality of technological equipment through recovery, repair and maintenance works.

The opening of a children's house in the Patria popular council, in the municipality of Morón, contributes to materialize in the province of Ciego de Ávila the government programs of Transformation in Neighborhoods and Communities, Attention to Demographic Dynamics and Advancement of Women.

It may be that other years the protocol act has been better; the incentives may even have been more "reinforced", but one who has seen many awards to the best athletes of the year in the province, has only to recognize the love and humility of the honorees in the 2022 edition.

Under drizzle, a representation of the people of Ciego de Ávila celebrated today the 64th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution, during a political-cultural act that took place in the municipality of Ciro Redondo, distinguished as the most integral due to the sustained advances in production, the economy and the services to the population.

Arnaldo Rodríguez announced it just a few days ago, when, after enjoying the soccer World Cup final, he went to the recording studio to continue polishing a musical theme that could be the anthem of Ciego de Ávila the next year. Ciego de Ávila Heartbeat will be the culmination and beginning.

The inauguration of social works and the checking of prioritized tasks occupied the weekend of the highest authorities of Ciego de Ávila, in a boost to the political movement #DecisiveEffort, which seeks to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the province without wasting a day.

The member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and First Secretary in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso and Tomás Alexis Martín Vanegas, Governor of the province, inaugurated 30 modern and comfortable apartments in Morón in the new Camilo Cienfuegos neighborhood, northeast of the city.

Relatives of Lieutenant Enrique Olivera donated to the Colonel Simón Reyes Hernández Provincial Museum, in Ciego de Ávila, the pistol used by this Rebel Army combatant in La Sierra Maestra.

All the restaurants and cafeterias of the Extra-Hotel Branch of Palmares in Ciego de Ávila are preparing festivities for the end of the year, with emphasis on the offer on Saturday, December 31.

In an atypical school year closure, which still "drags" the curricular adjustment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Higher Education delivered more than 500 graduates in Ciego de Ávila in various disciplines of medical, technical, social, agricultural and livestock sciences.

It was necessary to wait a little more than four decades, or better, for 44 fights of these characteristics to elapse, for the representative team of the municipality of Ciro Redondo to win its first title in a Provincial Championship. However, this Saturday, December 24, its people said "better late than never."

The Ciro Redondo factory and its neighboring bioelectric plant once again get attention for this 2022-2023 sugar harvest in Ciego de Ávila.

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Thursday, there was no deficit at any time of the day. For today, no effects are forecast for this cause, except for the hours of maximum demand in which, due to low reserve levels, a deficit of 4 megawatts (MW) is estimated for the province.

The member of the Central Committee and first secretary of the Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, Liván Izquierdo Alonso, called in a meeting with producers from the sugar sector to get the accounts right in a harvest with material limitations, but with the desire to achieve efficiency with the resources available in the Ciro Redondo sugar factory, from the municipality of the same name, in Ciego de Ávila.

This Thursday in Holguín, the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, Vice Prime Minister of Cuba, verified the rehabilitation process of unit two of the Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermoelectric Power Plant, Felton, in the municipality of Mayarí.

This Thursday, there was a division of honors between Ciro Redondo and Primero de Enero, so we will have to wait for the simple game next Saturday to find the monarch of the 44 Provincial Baseball Championship.

The will to preserve education as one of the main achievements of the Revolution, close to its 64th anniversary, was ratified today from the municipality of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, during the celebrations for Educator's Day.

If 1,000 basic need stores existed in Ciego de Ávila, more than 1,000 queues and 100,000 daily opinions could be witnessed since the sale of the New Year's basket or module began, announced in the middle of the month by this newspaper. It has been the trending topic of the network… of commercial stores.

If Wilfredo Osuna did not speak with his hands, he would still be a man dressed in gestures; the most eloquent of them, having dedicated himself to Education for 46 years out of the 64 he already has. Moreover, although in the other 18 there were also signs anticipating this future, he prefers to think that the sign language with which he imitated his deaf neighbor was just adolescent empathy and not a harbinger of a special teacher.

“We are prosperous blacks thanks to Fidel and the Revolution,” Professor Norka Inés González Hernández frequently repeats when referring to her and her daughters, “and people laugh, but she expressed it that way because it is the truth, since we come from a very humble family and this social system dignified us”, she adds.

The 31st edition of the Havana International Book Fair will market 4,000,200,000 printed books and 4,200 titles, its organizers reported today at a press conference.

When everything seemed to indicate that Ciro Redondo would threaten to checkmate Primero de Enero in the playoff of the 44th Provincial Baseball Championship, the current champions took the second game out of the freezer, of a double bill, which took place at the Sergio stadium Antuña.

With a vision of tourism development different from the one that gave rise to this activity in Cuba during the Neocolonial period ―when Prohibition in the United States displaced travelers to this Island, converted into a place of gambling, alcohol and prostitution― the Cuban Revolution channeled the progress of the sector after its triumph in 1959.

The constitution in the province of Ciego de Ávila of a section of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba (CCRC) will expand the opportunities to train and increase the participation of local businesses in commercial events aimed at promoting exports of products and services.

It would be difficult to draw a dividing line in Roberto Rivas Fraga, because in that Popular Council a trickle of water reaches some houses, in others it runs smoothly, even through the alleys, while others are afflicted with a chronic drought that not even thieves of water completely relieve: pulling it forcefully to enter it does not always work.

If there is something to do at the end of a year full of adversities and shortcomings, it is to say goodbye with celebrations and the hope that the future (and the future) may be better. That is why the cultural, sports and Commerce institutions announced a schedule of activities that try to celebrate our battles at all costs. "And in this battle, the people have been the protagonists," Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, said.

Surviving 12 Presidents of the United States, all with ravenous appetites and a claim to eat the little alligator for lunch, is one of the greatest acts of heroism by any people on earth.

The days are repeated every 24 hours, but none is the same as another. On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, far from his homeland, Andy Granda went out on the tatami with the same calm as always and with the certainty that he was in a position to make a "great role" (meaning achieve something very big, a performance of excellence, relevant, unprecedented).

Food production, a program that needs to be strengthened in the 10 municipalities of Ciego de Ávila, will focus attention on the II Provincial Conference of the Union of Agricultural, Forestry and Tobacco Workers, scheduled for December21st and 22nd, in Ciego de Ávila.

The Presidency of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus recently approved a declaration on the need to put an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the Government of the United States of America against Cuba.

When Marta Hernández Fleitas, an 82 year-old woman, reads this interview, she will continue to feel proud of the family she has created. Her son, Amaury Gómez Hernández, has been very clear about honoring the continuity of the action and the thought that she has instilled in him.

The Electric Union (UNE) reported that yesterday the electricity service was not affected due to a generation deficit.

The December paddocks have already recorded the problem, even though the exact havoc of the drought cannot be measured in liters (L), because every time the Dairy and Livestock managers speak, they agree on the same point: no delivery to the industry all the milk that comes out of the udders.

Today, the constitution of the Municipal Assembly of Popular Power (AMPP) in the municipality of Morón, confirmed the empowerment of women in Ciego de Ávila society when some 35 took office as delegates, two of them elected as president and vice president, and another appointed as secretary of that government structure.

As in all of Cuba, the Popular Provincial Court of Ciego de Ávila and its structures in municipalities celebrate with various activities the 49 years that have elapsed since its creation, on December 23, 1973, when a reorganization of the Cuban judicial system took place.

The Electric Power Company reports that yesterday the electrical service was affected from 5:18 p.m. to 7:28 p.m. The maximum impact was 326 MW at 6:20 p.m.

As an expression of power framed in the genuine popular character that characterizes the Cuban social project, and in compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Law, this Thursday the Provincial Committee of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) in Ciego de Ávila approved, in extraordinary plenary session, the proposals for pre-candidacies for deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power.

This Thursday, the Ministry of Finance and Prices (MFP by its Spanish initials) reported that it has been decided to extend until June 30, 2023 the tariff benefits temporarily approved by Resolution 309, of July 15, 2021, regarding the exemption from payment of customs tax for non-commercial importation of food, toiletries and medicines by passengers and as accompanied baggage.

The creation of facilities for more than 55,300 older adults in the province of Ciego de Ávila is one of the government priorities in view of the growing aging population and as part of the Demographic Dynamics Care Program in the country.

The two teams that disputed the title in the last edition of the Provincial Baseball Championship, Primero de Enero and Ciro Redondo, could do it again in this fight in 2022, judging by the results this Wednesday in the semifinal playoffs they had on stage the José Ramón Cepero and Diciember 14 stadiums (in Florence).

The journalists’ work of the year 2022 from Ciego de Ávila was recognized this Wednesday with the Eddy Martin Award, in a simple act organized by the Union of Cuban Journalists in the province, which was held at the Colonel Simón Reyes Hernández Provincial History Museum.

Stimulating innovative thinking in teachers that allows transforming educational practice, to continue contributing to educational improvement, is one of the immediate challenges that the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba (APC) is looking at, at the gates of a new year.

Another step in the use of the waters of the Zaza-Ciego master canal is taken in the municipality of Majagua with the cleanup of land infested with marabou, which in a first stage will cover some 469.7 hectares (ha) for planting in the present cold campaign.

In the tenth ordinary session of the National Assembly of Popular Power (ANPP) in its ninth legislature, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel gave an account of his management in 2022, "an extremely complicated year on the international stage."

The writing time is not 90 minutes, nor is this photo-report intended to score an analytical goal or discover the "offside" in journalism, but the World Cup phenomenon —understood as the World Cup that of the most universal sport— once again surprises us in its attempt to understand it?

Representatives of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) will meet again this Wednesday, in Havana, in the midst of a complicated regional scenario and an increasingly tense and complex.

The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero, assured this Tuesday that the current priorities are comprehensive care for the elderly, safe motherhood and the causes of population mobility.

The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba rendered an account this Tuesday before the National Assembly of People's Power, on the second day of the Tenth Ordinary Period of Sessions of the Cuban Parliament, in its IX Legislature.

This Tuesday, with the presence of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the tenth regular session of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) in its ninth legislature resumed.

The workers of the mini-industry El Placer, belonging to the Reinaldo Maning Strengthened Credit and Services Cooperative (CCSF), in the municipality of Majagua, intends to resume the sustained increase in food production for the population and other destinations.

The contributions of state companies and new actors in the economy in Ciego de Ávila will allow offering a module of food products to 180,000 nuclei for the end of the year and in salute to the triumph of the Revolution, in addition to hold fairs in all municipalities on December 28, 29 and 30.

The X Ordinary Period of Sessions of the National Assembly of Popular Power (Cuban Parliament) in its IX Legislature will take place from this Monday until December 14 at the Havana Convention Center.

Melany knows that time is money for her mommy. She also understands that maternal love is worth a fortune, so she waits until late for mom to tuck her in, kiss her, and wish her good night.

In the International Year of Sustainable Development in the Mountains and when commemorating the world day of these ecosystems, the advancement of women is recognized as a relevant result of the international project Connecting Landscapes, recently completed in four mountainous massifs of Cuba.

The Council of State agreed to convene the Sixth Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its IX Legislature, on December 14 at 3:00 p.m., at the Convention Palace, on the occasion of the Eighteenth Anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP by its Spanish initials).

The contribution of the Center for Coastal Ecosystems (CIEC) to sustainable development in the northern cays of Ciego de Ávila, recently declared as an area with special regulations, was recognized by the Environment Agency, after evaluating the results of work for the year 2022.

Today, December 9, at the head office of the Popular Provincial Court in Ciego de Ávila, four Presidents of Popular Municipal Courts, a President of the Criminal Section and a Substitute Professional Judge took office.

Time erased the colors. Looking at that little piece that holds so much history is overwhelming in a certain way and motivates the most dissimilar questions. Well, that little piece of fabric barely 40 millimeters at the top, 35 at the bottom and 25 high belongs to the shirt that Antonio Maceo y Grajales wore on the day he fell in combat on December 7, 1896 in the fields of San Pedro.

The people of Ciego de Ávila honor their fallen martyrs during internationalist missions 33 years after Operation Tribute. Thirty-three years after the completion of Operation Tribute, the people of Ciego de Ávila do not forget the heroism and sacrifice of their best sons who fell while carrying out internationalist missions.

On December 7, 1896, Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo and his assistant Panchito Gómez Toro fell in combat in Punta Brava, when the invasion of the Liberation Army that took the war from East to the confines of Pinar del Rio, defeating in its path all the Spanish forces that opposed it and circumventing the trails with which Spain intended to prevent its advance.

In 1992, when the first cultural crusade from Júcaro to Morón took place, I had not been born. Since then, many things have changed, and, of course, the generations that have succeeded those "crazy" are different (as it should be).

The contest of collectives from various entities together with the support of the residents of the Vicente Popular Council, in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila, promise to change the face of the communities in the coming weeks and months, which appear on the map of the most vulnerable.

The training of the recently elected 547 delegates to the municipal assemblies of Popular Power (AMPP) in the province of Ciego de Ávila, constitutes a guarantee for the efficient fulfillment of the powers granted to them by the Law as representatives of the people.

• In the context of the centenary of the University Student Federation (FEU) and the celebration of the X Congress of that organization, Portal Avileño proposes the testimony of a young woman who volunteered in the Red Zone during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Monday, the deficit in generation availability had a maximum of 30 megawatts (MW). The maximum demand in the province occurred at 6:20 p.m. with 117 MW, while the average affectation per circuit was 57 minutes.

The VIII Caricom-Cuba Summit, which Barbados hosts today, will be a reunion between Caribbean brothers to continue strengthening relations of friendship, respect, mutual support, solidarity and cooperation for the well-being of our peoples, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party Communist of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez affirmed.

Towards Barbados, Cuba has a special feeling, because there are several milestones in the history of our relations that mark us deeply; One of them was when this country, along with three other Caribbean nations —Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago— established diplomatic relations with us (December 8, 1972) in total defiance of the Yankee empire.

The member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, reaffirmed this Monday in Ankara, the will to strengthen bilateral relations in their different spheres.

With the election this Sunday of the 33 delegates from the constituencies that had to go to the second round, Ciego de Ávila completed the 547 members of the Popular Power municipal assemblies and will not have to hold a third round of elections.

If you fertilize your fields, your costs skyrocket and your income diminishes. Moreover, if you do not fertilize them, then their productions and profits drop. In La Cuba Agricultural Company, they do not have a way to take zeros from the more than 70 million pesos of losses that they registered at the end of November.

Intense workdays take place in the municipality of Majagua during the Day of Decisive Effort, convened by the Provincial Committee of the Party as part of the Latir Avileño political movement and in greeting to the 64th anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution.

The probabilities of growing rice in mountain agroecosystems ―in dry conditions and facing the effects of climate change― are confirmed in the municipality of Chambas, Ciego de Ávila, after applying scientific and innovative methods, with the advice of research centers and the local university.

«I am convinced that we will make a short, but very fruitful visit. We are going to make good use of the time, we will talk about many issues and we will reach important agreements, with the broadest sense of solidarity, "the member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, Esteban Lazo Hernández, said when starting an official visit to the Republic of Türkiye.

The provincial act for Latin American Medicine Day, headed by the main political and government authorities, was held this Saturday morning at the University of Medical Sciences of Ciego de Ávila.

There is so much symbolism in that memorable dawn in which a random landing became an epic of youthful courage, that history calls us, every year, to remember the date of December 2, 1956 as one of the inescapable references in which sustains the epic resistance of the Cuban people.

By establishing a management contract with the Cubanacán Hotel Group (GHC), the international chain MGM Muthu Hotels strengthens its presence in Jardines del Rey, where the Colonial Cayo Coco facility will become the fourth to operate with that firm from India.

Two months after the new Family Code was approved in a popular referendum, training continues to be an urgency for Law operators, in a labor scenario open to emerging practices, which will put under the microscope the Third Meeting of Notarial Law that, On December 3, it will host the Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila (UNICA).

The production of 54 562 tons of sugar, from the grinding of 777 211 tons (t) of cane, is the commitment of the Ciego de Ávila citizens for the 2022-2023 sugar contest, scheduled to start in the first fortnight of this month , with the start of the Ciro Redondo factory.

The teams from Artemisa, Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila dispute in this central province their classification to the National Rodeo Tournament, which will take place in Boyeros, starting next December 8.

The Provincial Government Council in Ciego de Ávila gratified the performance of Ronny Álvarez Noa, who was crowned champion in the 86-kilogram division, during the recently concluded La Nucía 2022 Youth Boxing World Cup, in the Spanish province of Alicante.

The work of the company has a direct impact on the population.

Although not as daily as in the splendid years of the Cuban economy, the anticipated fulfillment of the annual plan by a certain company seems to reserve more motivation for its directors, specialists and workers than for the interests of a press aware that everything that is done it is insufficient, taken to the Roman where the levels produced (supply) and the needs (demand) increasingly counterpoint.

"I felt good, despite the fact that I had not competed internationally since the Pan American Games in Lima, in 2019," he commented.

Judoka Jorge Martínez Wilson (81 kilograms) became the first athlete from the province to qualify for the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games (JCC) in San Salvador, 2023, after winning the bronze medal in the Panama Qualifying Tournament.

This Sunday, with a cinema debate of the film Innocence in the House of the Young Creator, the Saíz Brothers Association in Ciego de Ávila commemorated the 151st anniversary of the Execution of the Eight Medical Students.

This Sunday, an estimated 300,000 voters exercised their right to vote during the municipal elections in Ciego de Ávila.

At his 92 years old, walking stick in hand, Félix is ​​getting ready to vote. Photo: Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez.

The affability, simplicity and indestructible modesty say a lot about Félix Álvarez Aguilar, 92, a man who at an early age was forced to work as a cleaning assistant, construction worker, seller of saints and religious prayers, newspapers, collector of water receipts..., and who began his Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences at the age of 55 and finished it at 60, "after old age", thanks to an "immeasurable Revolution that gives opportunities to all".

As happens every five years, this November 27 the delegates to the municipal assemblies of Popular Power will be elected. The significance of this crucial moment is not reduced to the fact that those chosen will be the trustees of the voters in the scenario where they live and to whom the high responsibility of representing them will correspond, but, above all, that their problems, complaints and opinions are known, analyzed and reflected in state decision-making.

Marabana participants will also honor history in Ciego de Ávila

More than fifty athletes participating in the traditional Marabana marathon, including runners from the national athletics and skating team, together with the people of Ciego de Ávila, will participate on November 30 in the First sporting event Crossing the Trail from Júcaro to Morón. 

For his educational contributions to the preservation of heritage, the Spanish professor Antonio Ortega Ruiz was distinguished this Friday with the shield of the Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila.

The Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa exchanged during the afternoon of this Friday with workers and managers of the Provincial General Teaching Hospital Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola of Ciego de Ávila.

·      Democracy in Fidel implied sharing the fate of the most humble people of the town

Fidel reached out to the peasant community. It was an old community on a reddish soil, where a cooperative with 80 houses was beginning to be built. Construction materials were stacked in a straight line, and to one side was a half-built warehouse.

·      It is the longest running event sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila

From November 25 to December 2, the Cultural Crusade Following the Trail returns, from Júcaro to Morón, to the cultural billboards of the province, a community-wide contest with a high sociopolitical impact, which takes art to the same places that they retraced the rebels and the Liberation Army during the independence wars.

There are many challenges and horizons to overcome in terms of cybersecurity for Cuba. In this, not only decision-makers have a fundamental role, but also citizens, businessmen and officials at any level.

The validity of the ideology of Fidel Castro Ruz constitutes not only an incentive, but also a firm conviction for these times, where the global crisis of Capitalism becomes more and more intensely systemic, while the third world countries continue to pay the worst consequences.

For Isabel Romero Pérez (La China), giving up the interview was never an option, nor was completely interrupting her work routines, at that time, aware of requests from clients located in the two bars of the Acuabar of the Hotel Colonial Cayo Coco, in the Jardines del Rey tourist destination.

Jorge Martínez Wilson, from the 81 kilograms division, eleven times medalist in national championships and the best judoka from Ciego de Ávila of all time, ensured his participation in the first qualifier in Panama City (November 26 and 27), with a view to to the next Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from June 23 to July 8 of next year.