On February 3, 1962, the then president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, decreed the total "embargo" of trade between the United States and Cuba, in compliance with section 620 (a) of the Foreign Assistance Act.

The Revolutionary Government denounces the validity for more than 60 years of the economic, commercial and financial blockade formally imposed by the United States on February 3, 1962. On that date, the President John F. Kennedy issued Proclamation 3447, which decreed a total “embargo” on trade with our country under section 620(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act. In this way, the aggressive and unilateral economic actions that had been applied against Cuba since the revolutionary triumph were conferred an official character.

The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A. (Etecsa), alerts its customers about mobile balance scams, after receiving several complaints from users denouncing an unjustified decrease in the amount.

Cuba became the world leader in vaccinating its population against covid-19, reaching a new milestone in the immunization of early childhood children, several US media outlets highlighted in recent hours.

Of what has been undertaken in recent times to solve accumulated problems and others that are appearing in Cuba, two of the methods that have given more possibilities to those who have responsibilities in working with the population have been the systematic exchange with the various sectors of society, and transformative work in neighborhoods.

From financial persecution to curbing access to medical supplies, the US government used COVID-19 as an ally to tighten the blockade against Cuba.

The first meetings of the popular consultation of the Family Code Project make it clear that greater knowledge of the text is needed to participate in its analysis. Obviously, the late arrival of the tabloids, just last Monday, attempted against the interventions at the start, but between now and April 30 that scenario must change.

With new energy and the satisfaction of the duty fulfilled during 2021, the year of Preparation for Defense 2022 began in the Ciego de Ávila Military Region, a time to outline new objectives and strengthen others from previous stages.

Voters from District 3 of the City Center Popular Council, in the Ciego de Ávila capital, launched the popular consultation on the Family Code Project on Tuesday night, a democratic exercise that will last until April 30.

The workers of the Jardines del Rey international airport, in Cayo Coco, in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, won the venue for the national activity to start the tribute days for February 15, the Civil Aviation Worker's Day.

Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba (Parliament), received today at the head office of the Cuban legislature a delegation of European deputes belonging to the European Leaft Party, which began an official visit to the island yesterday.

As in the popular humorous program Vivir del cuento, Ángel Manuel Marín, provincial field hockey commissioner in Ciego de Ávila, tells me that he has two pieces of information to offer me: one good and one bad.

If something was evident in the Provincial Assembly of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) in Ciego de Ávila, it is that the young people who make it up feel identified with it, among other things. It is due to the spaces it has provided for them to give away art in different scenarios.

The inclusive nature of the Family Code Project and the right to give an opinion during the popular consultation of this bill set a standard in the exercise of democracy in Cuba, Marlenis Báez Valdivia, vice president of the Provincial Electoral Council in Ciego de Avila, said.

With a tour of sites of historical, social and cultural interest in the Ciénaga de Zapata municipality, in the province of Matanzas, nine deputies to the European Parliament and other officials, belonging to the group La Izquierda, began their official visit to Cuba on Monday.

Most of the Cuban territories will end the 2020-2021 school year on March 5, which was marked by different contexts throughout the country, due to the uneven dates on which face-to-face teaching activities were resumed, ACN highlights.

The start-up in 2021 of a modern production line at the CEPIL Juan Antonio Márquez Company, in Ciego de Ávila, guarantees the manufacture of plastic buckets for the Vitral Paints Company, the SERVISA Integral Business Group and also benefits other entities.

The availability of medicines in Cuba is a sensitive issue that receives priority attention from the national government, due to the social dimension that it implies.

An important step in their professional training was reached by the group of 60 twelfth-grade students from the Camilo Cienfuegos Military School in Ciego de Ávila, who graduated this Friday, in order to continue higher education and contribute their knowledge to the development of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

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.

Rosario Cárdenas Company and Ensemble gave their hearts in each movement and danced with individuality and skill, a priori, the first conclusions after an hour of contemporary dance, in which they shared the stage. Then, it would have to be said that the possibility of perceiving and interpreting each movement in the front row must have left the audience full of emotions and with several ideas floating around.

The Ciego de Ávila squad, with good pitching by Fernando Betanzo and an offense of 11 hits, began its tour for the west region with a victory by winning 5x3 and, incidentally, broke the undefeated streak of the current runner-up Matanzas, by continuing this Saturday, at the Víctoria de Girón stadium, the 61 National Baseball Series.

The Postal Company of Ciego de Ávila closed 2021 with a net sales plan at 105.4 percent compliance, the profit plan rising to 191.1 percent and achieving total revenues of more than 33 million pesos. Even in the midst of the impact that COVID-19 had, they are not numbers with which there is agreement in the midst of a process that still requires improvement.

It is no coincidence that on the eve of the 83rd anniversary of the Central of Worker from Cuba (CTC,) food production and the efficiency of the socialist state company are two of the main issues in the debate for a prosperous future.

Marlenis Báez Valdivia, vice president of the Provincial Electoral Council in Ciego de Ávila, described as positive the dynamic test carried out on January 27 and 28, with the aim of verifying the organizational capacity to face the popular consultation process of the Preliminary Draft of the Code of the families.

Reinaldo Cruz Rivera, deputy attorney general of the Republic of Cuba, emphasized in the province of Ciego de Ávila that the Prosecutor's Office reinforces its performance in order to ensure the economic and social transformations that are being carried out in the country.

Step to those who are not afraid of light! Photos: Alejandro Garcia

We may or may not agree, but the song Making Faith, which the Duo Iris defended in the Adolfo Guzmán contest, had all the ingredients to win not the popular vote, but the contest. Melodious voices and lyrical lyrics embroidered in watermarks dedicated to Martí are, in my opinion, an infallible formula. Nevertheless, this is not about a singing competition.

Historian Ángel Cabrera Sánchez described the book Fidel Castro's Strategic Thought: Value and Validity as an extraordinarily lawful and essential material for understanding the construction process of the Cuban social project, during his presentation this Thursday in the city of Ciego de Ávila.

Guaranteeing maximum road safety and reducing traffic accidents continue to be the main work objective of the road safety technical subcommittee for 2022 in Ciego de Ávila.

For this Saturday, it is forecast the arrival of a new cold front in Cuba, which will increase the clouds and rains in its rapid movement through the country, reports the MeteoAlerta channel. The most significant aspect will be the irruption of a mass of very cold air of arctic polar origin, which will impose marked winter conditions in a large part of the national territory.

For Fulgencio Batista, the months that have elapsed since his coup d'état on March 10, 1952 were one of consolidation of his regime in the face of Washington's complacency and support. The acceptance of the traditional parties of a bourgeoisie more interested in benefiting from the good results of the harvest of that year than in demanding respect for the laws of bourgeois democracy rudely broken by the usurper.

Is Marti alive? A simple question that does not intend to offend the Master or those of us who assume and study his thought today, in the Cuba of 2022, because the simplest knowledge endures over time; that's what he taught us.He also taught us about humanism, justice, social equity...

Caution has always been a recommended concept for forecasts and overconfidence. A week ago, we said that the province seemed to have experienced its epidemic peak, but the last seven days (at the end of January 25) say otherwise.

There are 169 years since the most universal of Cubans saw the light, and respect only increases from year to year. As always, young people take center stage and Ciego de Ávila population demonstrates this with traditional festivities.

The sustained increase in flights to the Jardines del Rey tourist destination, in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, demonstrates the safety and reliability of the Cuban leisure industry, despite the epidemiological complexities at the international level.

For the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, it is a duty to continue informing the people and international public opinion about the legal response given to the serious events that occurred on July 11, 2021, which threatened the constitutional order and stability of our socialist State.

From very early in the morning, Ciego de Ávila fans were lining up at the José Ramón Cepero stadium to witness the first duel of the 61st National Baseball Series between the teams from Las Tunas and Ciego de Ávila.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) confirmed in the coastal community of Punta Alegre, northwest of the province of Ciego de Ávila, progress in the implementation of strategies for adaptation to climate change based on ecosystems. Teresa López Seijas, coordinator of the UNDP Coastal Resilience international project, described as positive the integration of local specialists, authorities and producers, oriented to the development and promotion of the Cuban State Plan to Confront Climate Change (Life Task).

The contribution of members to the improvement of Cuban agriculture and the implementation of the Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Program are topics of debate in the assembly process of the VI Congress of the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF).

At home happy, with her daughter Lorena who still doesn't want to “wean herself”. Photos: Alejandro Garcia

When they found out in Ceballos that Yarisnelis would be a mother for the fourth time, they must have judged her more than necessary. The least they must have thought, those who didn't dare to tell her, was that she was crazy! Moreover, even more so in the midst of this situation! The indiscreet women would ruminate for whom two children already completed the family picture.

The Local Development Project Specialized Technical Services (SERVTES) of the municipality of Morón, aims to modernize Cuban agriculture. To do this, they have developed an initiative that will automate the irrigation process in the fields, through a PLC Controller that interprets variables and from there executes actions.

The group of the high-density polyethylene pipe company Ciegoplast, in Ciego de Ávila, has several years of experience. Workers maintain stability in the production process; thanks to technological innovations and equipment, which already exceed 20 years of exploitation.

Aliuska Mesa Rodríguez, Territorial Director at the Ministry of Finance and Prices, called for de-technifying the State Budget and turning it into a process of real participation, in which the delegates of each constituency, along with their voters, feel essential actors. Her participation as a guest in the sessions of the municipal assemblies of the People's Power of the province of Ciego de Ávila, led the attendees to these work sessions to enrich their appreciation in relation to such an important issue.

This could well be the story of a man who has forged himself in character from perseverance and overcoming.

The need to create new sources of income in the face of the budget deficit that predicts 2022 was among the most debated issues by the delegates of the People's Power Assembly in the municipality of Majagua.

Ciego de Ávila`s radio, the Marín family and the Cuban broadcaster mourn the death of one of Radio Morón's distinguished host, whose voice has not yet been erased from the popular imagination.

A date as close and compromising as the month of March puts the few workers at La Teresa Alevinaje Center, in the Ciego de Ávila`s municipality of Venezuela, in a hurry to make use of the first ponds that will start the next reproduction of cyprinids campaign in the province.

A meter and a half of separation between spectators and hygienic measures from the very arrival at the stadium, announced the Provincial Directorate of Sports in Ciego de Ávila for the assistance of fans to José Ramón Cepero in the debut of Los Tigres against Las Tunas next Tuesday in the 61 National Baseball Series.

As part of the transformation actions carried out in Limones Palmero, a community located in the south of the municipality of Majagua, the 20 kilometers of railways that connect it with the town of Orlando González were covered.

The challenges of the Civil Defense System in the face of climate change were raised during the Third Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction, which brought together in Ciego de Ávila, heads and specialists of that body in the provinces of Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spirits and the host territory.

The "Coastal Resilience" project aims to strengthen and integrate disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in the socio-economic development plans of sectors and governments of coastal municipalities such as Chambas.

Nilka has the imprint of the dye. She can't hide the black on her black skin, perhaps because it was a good dye or because it was very recent or because it was she who ended up edging her forehead, without time to go to a hairdresser's, on a Saturday afternoon.

The popular consultation of the Family Code, close to be developed, from February 1st. to April 30, has been preceded by an extensive preparation that must guarantee the efficiency and transparency of this process.

The professionals of the Neck Pathology consultation of the Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Hospital prioritize the program against cervical cancer with the aim of making a timely diagnosis for the most effective treatment of women with this disease in the central and south regions of the territory.

Ciego de Ávila entered this week in the final stretch of the preparation process prior to the popular consultation and referendum of the Family Code Project, with the training of the electoral authorities and the material assurance of the democratic exercise.

A recent study carried out in the Cuban province of Matanzas demonstrated the efficacy of immunotherapy to combat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in advanced stages, based on national biotechnological products.

Cuban mathematicians and epidemiologists estimate that the country could be entering the peak of the current wave of COVID-19 infections. According to forecast models presented this Tuesday during the weekly meeting of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, with experts from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) who have guided science and technological innovation in the fight against the coronavirus for almost two years.

Chiefs of Civil Defense and territorial policy specialists of the Military Regions, A experts for Defense and Civil Defense of the Military Sectors, together with directors of the selected provincial and municipal Risk Reduction Management Centers (CGRR), develop in Ciego of Ávila the Third Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction of the Central Army.

At the beginning of 2021, the Temporary Work Group (GTT) incited the search for national resources to substitute imports and contribute to the production of products with a deficit in the country, such as toothpaste. Specialists from Ciego de Ávila have not only found solutions for the Suchel Company; but they concluded the investigative part to have their own product.

The first time that María del Carmen Olivera Isern, coordinator of the international project Connecting Landscapes in the province of Ciego de Ávila, was at the Rincón Los Hondones farm, in the Bamburanao mountain massif, she was suspicious when appraising a piece of land, apparently, barren and rocky.

The arrival of a dozen bicycles is not news, but when it results from a humanitarian gesture that defies the multiple barriers imposed on Cuba by the US government, and then the significance of the event is understandable.

There is a long way to go and even more so the dissatisfactions regarding food sovereignty in Ciego de Ávila, issues that were debated in its Municipal Assembly of the Communist Party of Cuba. The opinions of the population about the supply of small food selling shops and other markets, and the high prices, reflect this, but other data also attests to the matter, for example: failure to plant crops such as plantain, cassava, taro, sweet potato, pineapple, papaya and guava.

A call to strengthen the performance of the militancy in the implementation of the economic and social strategy emerged during the Balance Assembly of the Communist Party of Cuba in the municipality of Morón, chaired by Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of that organization.

In order to prevent a Dengue epidemic in Ciego de Ávila, Public Health directors in this province adopt several strategies aimed at greater control of this arboviruses and increase the perception of risk in the population regarding the disease.

This Friday, Los Tigres hosted an act that was attended by Carlos Luis Garrido Pérez, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and its first secretary in the province, and Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor in the same institution at the José Ramón Cepero stadium, where it will face Las Tunas on Tuesday, January 25, in the debut of the 61st National Baseball Series.

The municipality of Morón consolidated its scientific results in the year 2021, as revealed in the municipal act for the Cuban Science Day, opportune to celebrate 13 institutions that contributed, efficiently, to that purpose.

Potato planting intensifies in Ciego de Ávila after the arrival in the province of imported seed, with which the largest number of hectares (ha) planned for the campaign will be covered.

The suspicions that the increase in the incidence rate of COVID-19 in Ciego de Ávila was motivated by the progress of omicron have already been dispelled. Not only because of the two cases verified by sequencing, but also because of the statements of the IPK experts: preliminary results place it as the variant that already prevails in Cuba.

The replacement of solar panel sets for others with greater generation capacity in 34 homes belonging to the Turquino-Bamburanao plan is among the work projections for 2022 of the Electricity Base Business Unit of the municipality of Florencia, in Ciego de Ávila.

The update of the protocols for the preventive management of medications, therapeutic treatment and hospitalization, emerged this Tuesday in Cuba due to the advance of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19.

The concentration of people in the theater of the Raúl Corrales Pedagogical School, head office of the Provincial Workshop "The Management of Innovation in New Economic Actors", is much more than the sum of speakers and audience, it is constituted in the hope of progress, based on the facilities offered by the updating of the Cuban economic model. They are the protagonists of a term very in vogue in these times: the new economic actors.

Specific issues related to improve the economy, food production and tourism development will be debated at the Communist Party Balance Assembly (PCC) in the municipality of Morón, scheduled for next Saturday, January 15.

This January 11, it will mark 42 years since the death of the Mountain and Flat heroine Celia Sánchez Manduley, a victim of cancer, as she was approaching her 60th birthday. However, those intense years of life were enough for her to enter the nation's history indelibly.

“I die for the Revolution!”, the communist and anti-imperialist fighter Julio Antonio Mella managed to say it when he was shot to death on a street in Mexico City at the age of 25, on January 10, 1929, by hitmen under orders of the tyrant Gerardo Machado.

With human and technological capabilities to process some 3,000 samples daily, the Molecular Biology Laboratory (LBM) of the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in the municipality of Morón, maintains a rhythm of work in accordance with the complexities in the epidemiological situation.

9 719 547 people (86.9 percent) of the Cuban population have already received the complete anti-COVID-19 vaccination scheme, with the national drugs Soberana 02, Soberana Plus and Abdala.

As part of his visit to the territory of Ciego de Ávila, the Cuban vice president, Salvador Valdés Mesa, arrived at La Trocha Local Development Project (PDL), linked to the cultivation and commercialization of fruits and viands, and with a registered trademark in the Cuban Office of Intellectual Property (De La Loma).

The vice president of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa, assured that the current sugar contest would test the ability of the workers of the Ciro Redondo plant to increase efficiency, after the investment of 93 million pesos that turned that Ciego de Ávila industry into the most modern of its kind in the country.

This afternoon, the Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa highlighted the commitment of that entity with the economic and social development of the country during a tour of the small company Media Luna in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The Ciego de Ávila Aqueduct and Sewerage Company informs the population of the capital city that as of Monday, January 10, work will be carried out on the entire water supply infrastructure to the town, with the aim of guaranteeing and improving the distribution.

Today, Miguel Díaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and president of the Republic, called to move forward, "to overcome the blockade with our own talent, with our effort and participation in Ciego de Ávila".

The technical group of the team exposed the work in the preparation

The roster of the three-time national champions, Los Tigres from Ciego de Ávila, was released this Friday and the purpose of managers and athletes is none other than to attend the post-season of the 61st National Baseball Series.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and president of the Republic of Cuba, arrived this morning at the Levan Kikava Levi Primary Seminar, in the Popular Council of Ceballos, as part of a visit to the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The last year,2021, provided strong days for the groups of the Ciego de Ávila Aqueduct and Sewerage Company, who undertook works, investments and maintenance for the benefit of the population and the economy.

The will of the American people to strengthen the ties of goodwill with Cubans was ratified by the religious organization Hope Refuges, by donating more than 200 wheelchairs to the province of Ciego de Ávila to improve the quality of life of disabled children.

The completion of several works and the continuity of an investment program at the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in Ciego de Ávila, shows the commitment of the Health sector to guarantee greater benefits that raise the quality of services in installation.

488 kilometer of the Central Highway witnessed, again on January 5, the passage of the bearded men of the Sierra Maestra, although now in a symbolic way incarnated by a group of young people who feel they are followers of their example.

In a complex epidemiological scenario, the Copextel Division in the territory of Ciego de Ávila guarantees technical availability in the laundries of the two provincial hospitals, with an innovative management that defies limitations imposed by the US blockade to import resources destined for reparation.

Ciego de Ávila is among the eleven provinces of the country with confirmed cases of Omicron, the new variant of the SARS CoV2 coronavirus, detected in Cuba last December, and which in recent days has increased the number of infected people in the national territory, according to statements by José Ángel Portal Miranda, Minister of Public Health (Minsap).

The highest authorities of the main municipality have understood that COVID-19 is not finished, even though 95 percent of the population of Ciego de Ávila completed their three-dose vaccination scheme and went for the reinforcement. This Tuesday, the Temporary Working Group in the territory decided to reinforce containment measures to avoid a scenario like last summer.

The role of family medicine in the prevention of risk factors and promotion of healthy lifestyles was highlighted in the province of Ciego de Ávila when commemorating the 38th anniversary of the constitution of the Family Doctor and Nurse Program, an initiative of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

Maribel Gutiérrez, representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba

Unlike other nations, during the last two years Cuba prioritized the health and well-being of its people over economic interests, which meant a huge effort, due to financial and resource limitations exacerbated by the global health crisis.

Basic telephony is one of the services that the clients of the Telecommunications Company of Cuba Anonymous Society (ETECSA) aspire to have; however, the large investments that its deployment requires make it a trickle process every year.

The application of science and innovation in the fattening activity, the improvement of breeding technology and the socialization of positive experiences of state and private producers, constitute priorities for the development of poultry farming in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The cry: Batista is gone! It was the detonator of euphoria that seized the citizens of Ciego de Ávila on the first morning of 1959. Like burning powder, it ran from house to house in the various towns. Thousands of people were flooding streets and parks. In almost all of them, a common denominator: the cries of Long live the Revolution! and Long live Fidel!

To generate a climate in which institutional and individual discipline and responsibility multiply, the main authorities of Ciego de Ávila called this Thursday, in the effort to prevent at all costs that a new outbreak of COVID-19 impacts in this central province.

Through his Twitter account, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, sent this Friday a message on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the New Year. He stressed that a period of losses and hard learning is ending, but also of victories. Invasor reproduces it in full.

Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, governor of Ciego de Ávila, returned to work after a hard convalescence. His face was contorted; he had lost 33 pounds of weight.

The Morón citizens reaffirmed the validity of the thinking of Captain Roberto Rodríguez Fernández (El Vaquerito), when commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the fall in combat of that combatant from Column 8 “Ciro Redondo” of the Rebel Army and the triumph of the Revolution.

The fact that the Jardines del Rey international airport, in Cayo Coco, has not interrupted its operations even once during the last two years shows that, even in the midst of the most adverse epidemiological conditions, tourism activity did not stop in Ciego of Ávila.