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.

More than 34,500 inhabitants of the municipality of Ciego de Ávila have not yet come to be vaccinated with the booster dose against COVID-19 until this December 29, despite the risk that this disease represents for the province and the country in the face of the growing affectation in the world with the appearance of the omicron variant.

With a set of images that complemented informative notes referring to the management of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) in Ciego de Ávila in the current year, Román Romero López, journalist for the Avileño Citizen Portal and the Cuban News Agency (ACN), won the award of the national photography contest “Reciclando Ando”.

The mere attempt to practice sport in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic was already a challenge, but much more if it was about dealing with the Tokyo Olympics or the Pan-American youth event in Colombia. For these reasons, it was more than deserved the tribute that the best athletes of Ciego de Ávila received from the Cuba Communist Party, the Government and the sports entity of the territory.

A discreet increase in the number of people infected by COVID-19 in the last 14 days of December of this year puts Ciego de Ávila citizens on alert in the need to combat irresponsible behaviors that put all their residents at risk.

Studies in sugarcane plantations, with the use of advanced technologies (drones with real image and multispectral cameras, and satellite snapshots) will favor the development of the 2021-2022 sugar harvest at the Ciro Redondo Agro-industrial Company, in the province of Ciego de Avila.

The timely detection of pregnant women at risk in the north-central region of the territory of Ciego de Ávila is part of the actions carried out by specialists from the Roberto Rodríguez Provincial General Teaching Hospital to improve the results of the Maternal and Child Care Program (PAMI) in 2022.

Even in the midst of holidays, vaccination against COVID-19 does not stop in the province of Ciego de Ávila, as part of the effort to achieve immunization of the entire population and consolidate improvements in the epidemiological situation.

After resuming the school year, last November, parents, relatives and teachers of the Primary School students knew that it was not going to be an easy process after so much time at home.

There is no triumph without sacrifice. Moreover, the flavor of this one is different, because it is unique, when, as a reward for delivery times, even your soul yells at you: Thank you! This is how the 183 graduates of the Ciego de Ávila`s University Máximo Gómez Báez (UNICA) Day Course felt this Thursday.

Idel Evelio Cruz Martín had to find a qualifier for his business, with caution not to repeat the experience of 2018, when the name of El Ángel was denied because it corresponded to another entity. How do you find, overnight, a denomination that meets your requirements and your expectations? He wondered.

The culmination of the environmental management actions envisaged by the international project Connecting Landscapes in four mountain ranges of the country, favors decision-making for the sustainable management of these areas.

The National Assembly of People's Power approved the draft Law of the Family Code and submit it to popular consultation from February 1 to April 30, 2022.

Sixty years ago, a war against ignorance was successfully waged in Cuba, an event that constituted one of the most beautiful and noble tasks carried out after the triumph of the Revolution: The Literacy Campaign, which culminated in the eradication of illiteracy in Cuba, a work in which adolescents and young people taught to read and write to people of any age, in the most remote places of the country.

I am not going to be fair in these lines, because after graduation, work and adult life you know that in each of these steps not only mom and dad, but also all their teachers, were driving them.

Regarding the recent debates in the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP), Reina Torres Pérez, deputy for the territory of Ciego de Ávila and member of the Agrifood Commission, highlighted the social impact of Decree Law No. 129/2019 "Fishing Law" in the province.

On horseback and hand in hand with her father, the splendid bride walks through the hill to the shadow of an almond tree, an exquisitely decorated space with natural elements. Sunflowers lined up on the lawn draw the route to her future husband, accompanied by the notary, family, friends and neighbors.

The manufactured nozzles, the result of the productive chain between various actors of the economy in Cuba

For the first time, filter nozzles for water purification plants are manufacturedin Cuba, after specialists in the hydraulic resources system concluded the rigorous inspection and testing process of the first 22,000 units created by the Ciego de Ávila company Ciegoplast.

On Saturday afternoon and evening, the successful synchronization of the first bioelectric plant (BE) in Cuba with the Ciro Redondo sugar factory marks a milestone in Cuba in the "linking" between a power factory and an electricity generating plant with employment of marabou biomass and sugarcane bagasse.

After two years without meeting in person due to the impact of the pandemic, this Sunday the permanent work commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power will do so to analyze the implementation of legislation or agreements related to their sectors or activities, including strategic programs of the country.

More than 200 people have been fined in the province of Ciego de Ávila, during the current year, for committing illegalities associated with the depredation of wild flora and fauna, incidents that affect biodiversity and ecological balance.

More than 60 vaccination centers began operating in all health areas of the province to immunize before the end of the year the 7,613 minors who fell ill with COVID-19.

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?"

Today, new works of economic and social benefit were inaugurated in the municipality of Ciego de Ávila as a greeting to the next balance meeting of the Communist Party of Cuba in this territory.

The Ministry of Education of Cuba (Mined) approved new norms and procedures for the Granting of Enrollment in Children's Kindergartens with the aim of prioritizing the treatment of mothers with children who present special educational needs, those with two or more children and female students with early childhood children.

ReCreo, the Performing Arts club of the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila, took up its space this Wednesday with René Rivas Hernández as a guest and the performance of the comedian Aldring Mirabal.

A local development project linked to history was approved in Ciego de Ávila for the remodeling and conceptualization of a reference kilometer of the defensive system of the trail from Júcaro to Morón.

The Porcine Company in the province of Ciego de Ávila adopts strategies to obtain alternative foods that allow to recover the productions, destined to satisfy the demands of the national economy and the materialization of the monthly per capita of five kilograms of protein products.

With the collection of more than 130 000 pesos in fifteen days, the Popular Crafts Fair in the José Sirio Inda Hernández House of Culture of the City of Ciego de Ávila ended.

The commercialization of more than 5 470 tons of viands, vegetables, grains and fruit trees, in the month of November, representing 27.8 pounds per capita, brings the province of Ciego de Ávila closer to the objective of guaranteeing the delivery of 30 lbs of agricultural products per capita in that interval.

After observing the total renovation of the Francisco Espinosa stadium, in Morón, the representatives of the National Baseball Commission, who travel the country to evaluate the material conditions prior to the start of the 61st National Series, were absolute in their pronouncement: “It is an example of what should be the main facilities of this discipline in the municipalities”.

When the doors of the Ciego de Ávila version of the 2021 National Crafts Fair close this December 15, it will have been verified that the city needs a permanent fairground, which allows the creators of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Assets (FCBC) interact with the existing public on this side of the stoneway, because we know that beyond the seas the links are expeditious.

The Jardines de la Reina National Park, located south of the provinces of Ciego de Ávila and Canagüey, received the Blue Park award in the Golden Category, an award that for the first time, a protected area of ​​Cuba receives for having achieved the highest scientific standards for the protection and management of marine life.

On Monday, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella visited the Ciego de Ávila Bioplant Center with the purpose of planning collaboration projects with BioCubaFarma.

When 45 exceeds its status as a number to represent the deaths of newborns, the frustration of women who wanted to be or repeat the experience as mothers, and family pain; alarms go off and it is urgent to determine causes, conditions and responsibilities.

The Local Agricultural Innovation Project (PIAL) from Ciego de Ávila constitutes a reliable example of how Human Rights are implemented and respected in Cuba.

Population studies in areas with a history of epidemiological complexities, places with higher population density and objectives of economic and social interest, facilitate the control of the COVID-19 pandemic in the territory of Ciego de Ávila.

Representatives of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) confirmed the economic and social impact of the revitalization of the local productive chain of construction materials in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Circular cage, 18 meters in diameter, about to go into operation

Considerable benefits are reported to the country by the completion of 37 new cages for intensive fish farming manufactured this year at the Ciego de Ávila company Ciegoplast, an entity with a growing contribution to food security and nutrition, priorities for the Cuban Government.

The connection to the National Electric System (SEN) of the first bioelectric plant in the country, adjacent to the Ciro Redondo sugar plant, is scheduled for December 20, according to what was known during a work visit made to Ciego de Ávila by Vice Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca.

A more or less detailed analysis of what has been done in the period under evaluation is expected from the accountability of the delegate to his constituents. How the representative of the town handled the complaints, concerns and proposals. How he led his fellow citizens in a critical look at reality and in participation in all issues that have communities as their center.

At the time when the three bullets interrupt the morning silence in the Pantheon of the Fallen Ones for Defense, the calm in the chest, in the breathing… and in the eyes were broken in Ciego de Ávila. Ten months ago, the officer of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), Major Yandi Espinosa Varela, rested in the same cemetery as the martyrs whom he went to honor on December 7 so many times.

The Cubanacán Travel Agency (AVC) in the province of Ciego de Ávila promotes the development of the tourism sector and offers possibilities for the recreation of national clients, through the sale of excursions to the Coco and Guillermo cays.

The difficulties with the supply of fuel, technical means and spare parts are not secrets that are found in the Provincial Transportation Company, but obstacles that are noted after almost a month of a gradual restoration of services in Ciego de Ávila.

The partial results of four projects, executed by the company Geocuba, will favor adaptation to climate change in strategic sectors such as agriculture, where the greatest impacts are expected in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

That doctors, nurses and health institutions in Ciego de Ávila take a break to celebrate this December 3, Latin American Medicine Day, which is more than deserved after a difficult year, in which COVID-19 has forced to make double effort from each consultation, isolation center and hospital.

The teacher Sara Fe Luis Lewis was distinguished in her home, surrounded by neighbors and family, as Glory of Education and Jewel of the Ciego de Ávila Pedagogy.

About the New Normality, I dare to assure, only the last word has been internalized, judging by an atmosphere of relaxation that alludes to failures in memory to remember the situation experienced in the province of Ciego de Ávila, which has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, just three months ago.

A new approach to scientific work to face climate change will allow the Workshop "Partial results of projects financed by the National Environment Fund", which will meet on December 2 and 3 in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Given the alert issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) about the high mutations of Ómicron, with the potential to be more resistant to immunization and more contagious, Cuba is already designing specific vaccines against this new variant of SARS-COV-2 , as published by Dr. Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of BioCubaFarma on his account on the social network Twitter.

In part, the long queues observed at the Identification, Immigration and Migration procedures offices in Ciego de Ávila since the resumption of this service could be related to the widespread rumor that in 2022 the price of requesting immigration documentation would increase or there would be limitations to travel.

In his capacity as a public servant and the highest representative of governance in the province, Martin Venegas was self-critical in his report without disdaining the achievements, but with an emphasis on what remains to be done.

On Monday, with a trova festivity at the House of the Young Creator of Ciego de Ávila, the Hermanos Saíz Association celebrated Silvio Rodríguez's 75th birthday. The troubadour Héctor Luis De Posada started the evening with Ángel for the end, while other anthological themes by the bard Silvio Rodríguez such as El papalote, and Mariposa, Te doy una canción, Compañera and el Sol no da de beber flooded the ether of Ciego de Ávila boulevard.

With six intervention sites distributed in the mountainous massif of Bamburanao, the international project Connecting Landscapes contributes to develop productive systems compatible with the conservation of biodiversity in the hills of the municipalities of Florencia and Chambas.

When the first rays of sunlight began to shine on the last Saturday of this November, a hundred members of the University Student Federation (FEU) and the Federation of High School Students (FEEM) were enlisting near Martí Park, from the city of Ciego de Ávila. Their goal was to carry out a march in commemoration of the unjust execution of eight medical students at the hands of the Spanish colonial government, in Havana, on a day like today in 1871.

There are poignant images that 150 years later it can still be counted in the present because they have not stopped hurting. There are details suspended in time that no testimony could do justice. Eight innocent young people paid the price with their lives. That illogical.

If you were not present in each act and your thoughts did not accompany the daily life of this country - full of joys and sorrows, but always resistant and victorious in the face of adversity - perhaps it would accept, after five years, that you have died.

Perhaps in 1992, upon graduating from Chemical Engineering at the University of Camagüey, she felt the frequent dissatisfaction with the work location; however, almost 30 years later, Yamilé Jiménez Peña speaks of the Bio-food Research Center (CIBA) of the province of Ciego de Ávila as a great opportunity.

Five practical contributions to the governance system is the main balance of the first graduates in Ciego de Ávila as postgraduate specialists in the Local Agricultural Innovation System (SIAL).

Fidel at the inauguration of the then Hotel Guiitart Cayo Coco

When Fidel stood at the top of those first 362 meters, scanned the horizon, calculated and thought that the fight against the sea was going to be difficult, it was when he pronounced the Homeric phrase: "Here you have to throw stones without looking forward." Perhaps, as a result of the pre-emotion of risk or of what in the future the act of "walking" on water would mean, as the most expeditious way to bring tourism development to the northern cays of Cuba.

Workers of the Provincial Government of People's Power in Ciego de Ávila highlighted the importance of the thought of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution when commemorating the fifth anniversary of his physical disappearance.

COVID-19 and dengue are viral diseases that cause fever, general illness, anorexia, headache and, sometimes, some digestive symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea.