More than five years ago, the word spread through the town of Pina that the marabou would cease to be the king of the jungle to be transformed into biomass or "spark" that would start the engines of a modern industry that would produce cleaner electricity.

If we said that the blackouts have not turned our lives upside down in recent months, we would be lying. We walk around late at night and pending the clock or the cell phone screen to calculate the "times of light" and, then, cook, wash, sleep, watch over the children's homework and even fan them so that they can rest what we cannot.

With a prominent position in the country for its economic indicators, the workers of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) of the province of Ciego de Ávila commemorate today the 61st anniversary of the Cuban recycling industry, founded by Commander Ernesto Che Guevara.

In the Department of Institutional Communication of the Ciego de Ávila Electric Company, for many months the hustle and bustle has been greater than in "normal situations". Any breakdown in a thermoelectric plant or instability in the National Electric Power System puts stress on your routine.

If it weren't for the fact that life is at stake, we could speak of the shortage of specialists as a transitory phenomenon, derived from almost three atypical years, in which COVID-19 took us to the extreme. It is no less true; however, the issue has deeper roots and has been cyclical in Ciego de Ávila province in recent years.

The longest night of the puppet is the golden closing of Puppets to the Center and this Saturday there were no doubts. The boulevard was a party from end to end and the three squares designed for the shows remained small, in front of the crowd of children and parents, who ran every time the curtain fell and the invitation to move to the next point arrived.

When the family was immersed in the dilemma of locating a crib of ordinary proportions in the limited space of the house - a single room - and the efforts of Mirta Rosa Doyley Johnson, president of the popular council Alfredo Gutiérrez Lugones, the Recovery Company of Raw Materials (ERMP) of the province of Ciego de Ávila, found the solution.

Canadian and national tourists enjoy the two lodging facilities inaugurated at the beginning of the winter season in Paredón Grande Cay, belonging to the Jardines del Rey destination, located in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The ninth edition of the Big Game Trolling International Sport Fishing Tournament, one of the most important recreational nautical events in Cuba, will take place from today until the next day 10, in the tourist destination Jardines del Rey, north of the province of Ciego de Avila.

The companies invited to the twelfth edition of Puppets to the Center in Ciego de Ávila will star this Friday in the puppet trail through schools and rural towns, adjacent to the historic Trail from Júcaro to Morón.

The highest political and government authorities in Ciego de Ávila positively evaluated the preparation of the current harvest at the Ciro Redondo, Primero de Enero and Ecuador Refinery Factories.

The performance of the institutional systems of document management and archives in rescuing historical memory and safeguarding the nation's graphic heritage was recognized today in Ciego de Ávila, at the end of the National Day for the Cuban Archivist's Day.

The international community today once again endorsed the Cuban resolution "Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba" with a positive result of 185 votes in favor, two against (the United States and Israel ) and two abstentions (Brazil and Ukraine).

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Wednesday, the deficit in generation availability reached a maximum of 66 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

Not to justify the breaches of the National Historical Memory Program and the legal regulations issued in 2020 for the improvement of the National System of Documentary Management and Archives, the governor of Ciego de Ávila, Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, recently called during the Government Council corresponding to the month of October.

Starting today at 10:00 am, the United Nations General Assembly will vote for the thirtieth time on the Cuban resolution Need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.

For the third time, Raúl Torres shares in the Ciego de Ávila`s cultural guerrilla with “Motivos Personales”, among other young creators of the Saíz Brothers Association.

We will never get tired of denouncing the blockade that the United States exercises over our country, because for more than 60 years it has affected the lives of our people in all possible spheres.

For the thirtieth time, the United Nations General Assembly addresses this Wednesday the Cuban resolution on the need to end the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba.

This week, the repair actions of the roof and eaves of the Morón Railway Terminal will begin, according to Tania Estrella González, Deputy Director of the Eastern Center of the Cuban Railways.

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Tuesday, the deficit in generation availability reached a maximum of 90 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

It would be February 2002 when the writer Larry Morales, from Morón, assumed the captaincy of a new ship, for which no one gave him coordinates. It was his personal compass and that of Lina Leyva, a writer as well, and of those who joined later, knowing that culture is the most faithful ambassador of friendship.

On a Friday morning, the telephone number of the Ciego de Ávila notary's office could collapse very easily before the appointments for the next week run out. There will be those who call again and again, until they arrange a day and time for their procedure, or who try with the same insistence to, in the end, hear that the shifts are exhausted, with no other choice but to resign themselves to waiting until next Friday.

The Delegation of the Ministry of Tourism in the province of Ciego de Ávila predicted a successful tourist high season in the sun and beach destination Jardines del Rey, based on the growth projections in the arrivals of international flights and clients, the renewal of the facilities and diversity of hotel and non-hotel offers.

The texts of the draft laws of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic and the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba and the Superior Control System for Public Funds and Administrative Management are available to the population on the website of the National Assembly of People's Power, with the aim of promoting citizen participation in this process and contributing to legal culture.

The province of Ciego de Ávila is ready to carry out this November 1st, the main act to start the National Conference on Safety and Health at Work, which will last until the 30th of the same month with multiple activities aimed at prevention as the best antidote against occupational accidents.

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Monday, the deficit in generation availability reached a maximum of 80 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

From November 3 to 6, the tireless puppets and puppeteers return to flood the city of Ciego de Ávila, with the start of the 12th edition of the Puppets to the Center theater day, a contest that will stage the best performers of the genre in the country, in a confluence between diverse aesthetics and ways of doing things.

With just over 88 percent of the population's proposals resolved at the end of October, the municipality of Morón is heading towards this important indicator of People's Power in the last quarter of the year, a period that coincides with the electoral process in the constituencies.

The economic gains and satisfaction of the population's material needs confirm the usefulness of the retail store of the Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) of Ciego de Ávila, destined to the commercialization of recycled articles with use value.

The Ornofay distinction in its twenty-third edition was conferred on Open Curtain and other personalities for their significant contributions in the activation, conservation and promotion of Ciego de Ávila cultural heritage.

The area of ​​low pressure in the central Caribbean Sea continued to gain in organization and intensity, reaching maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and its central pressure of 1003 hectopascals, for which it has become a tropical storm. Lisa, number twelve of the current hurricane season.

After 46 years, Reinaldo Rodríguez Varona preserves intact the memories of the constitution of the first Municipal Assembly of People's Power in Morón, province of Ciego de Ávila, and relives the pride of that October 31, 1976, when in the Social Circle (currently House of Culture) was invested as vice president of that body.

Around 480 homes will be visited in Ciego de Ávila by pollsters from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) who carry out the National Survey on the Economic Situation of Households (ESEH). This investigation began on October 16 and will run until November 26.

The Ciego de Ávila Electric Company reports that yesterday, Sunday, the deficit in generation availability reached a maximum of 58 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

Efforts to improve the quality of life of families in vulnerable conditions are materialized in the municipality of Baraguá through assistance to more than 1,220 nuclei, including 648 with temporary monetary benefits and 97 that receive food services.

With the implementation of new measures and integration of all social factors, Ciego de Ávila will strengthen the fight against crime, corruption, illegalities and social indiscipline, as reported in the Provincial Government Council for the month of October.

October 28 is a date that evokes history, Commander Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán as a crew member of the Granma Yacht, as one of the leaders of the invasion of the West and of the triumphant Cuban Revolution.

When we talk about quality of care, one of the oldest debts of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in Ciego de Ávila, may be to have a comfortable waiting room for the families of seriously and critically ill patients who wait, day after day, a favorable evolution in each medical part.

The contribution of computer programs to the development of electronic government and commerce in Ciego de Ávila was recognized during the II Internet Governance Forum (FGI), held in this province to promote the responsible and beneficial use of the Internet by citizens.

"Blame me for what happens / cover your back with my pain..." If the story began like this, with a skinny and long-haired boy playing, perhaps, the maracas, in the middle of a mountain, it would be difficult to take immediately that the protagonist is a Cuban guerrilla commander, on the verge of the “prodigious” decade of the 1960s.

The Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila holds its twenty-sixth Festival of Amateur Artists at the faculties’ level and in salute to the centenary of the Federation of University Students (FEU).

The modalities of teleworking and remote work must be promoted as forms of employment, which benefit both the entity and the worker, Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, Minister of Labor and Social Security (MTSS by its Spanish initials), recently highlighted on Twitter.

With a conference on the uninterrupted work of the Ciego de Ávila branch of the Nicolás Guillén Foundation, the Guillén Among Us Festival began in the Rooster City, led by its president and founder Larry Morales.

National and foreign deputies participate today in the parliamentary public hearing "Better without Blockade", to denounce the effects caused by the economic siege of the United States on the island.

This Wednesday, the Science and Technology Interface Society of the Camagüey-Ciego de Ávila University was established with the signature of the rectors of both houses of higher education.

Choosing the most capable and committed to the neighborhood is the will that these days brings together neighbors in different parts of Ciego de Ávila`s geography, while the process of nominating candidates to delegates of the municipal councils of People's Power assemblies advances in the province, as planned, which began on October 21.

The Electric Union estimates an availability of 2,141 MW for the night peak hour and a maximum demand of 3,080 MW, with a deficit of 939 MW, so if the forecasts are maintained, an affectation of 1,009 MW is expected in this schedule.

Although historians with a long history and scientific production such as Héctor Izquierdo Acuña are convinced of the origin of the name Morón, the truth is that there were more than two hypotheses for the toponymic of the well-known Rooster City.

The Ministry of Finance and Prices today published a note on its website to announce the increase in the retail price of blended coffee that is marketed as part of the regulated family basket.

From my years as a delegate to the Provincial Assembly of People's Power ─when that structure still existed and 50 percent were nominated from mass organizations and the other 50 percent were grassroots representatives─ I have an indelible image: seeing the delegates of constituencies "fight" for their bit.

The phrase that Humberto de la Caridad Hernández Suárez did not say last year, while offering information on the construction of a drinking water pipeline that will connect Turiguanó with Cayo Coco, it is said now, with full responsibility. The "task" is difficult, but they have to continue planting tubes without looking ahead.

Last Saturday morning, 30 peasants from Ciego de Ávila got on a bus and were escorted to the tip of Cuba, after the usual farewell —including the handshakes that peasants usually give each other with such force that they scare, even if they are not unexpected.

The Felton thermoelectric plant, after more than fifty days of stable work, except for the hours of zero generation after Hurricane Ian passed through the west of the country, will carry out maintenance aimed at recovering the production capacity of block one.

The Environmental Hydraulic Institute Foundation of Cantabria, in Spain, welcomes eight Cuban professionals, linked to the international Coastal Resilience (CR) project, to create capacities that strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR) management and adaptation to change Climate Change (ACC) on the Island.

Several factors converged in the Local Development Fair held this Sunday in the territory of Florencia and conceived as the second moment of the communication campaign Development begins here, corresponding to the Strengthening of Municipal Capacities for Local Development (PRODEL) program.

Lanquetin, pitcher Alain Román's team, demonstrated its hegemony by lifting the title of the Guatemalan Major National Softball Tournament for the eighteenth consecutive time, after sweeping Chakatales in the final series of the second phase.

The Telecommunications Company of Cuba S.A (ETECSA) in Ciego de Ávila continues with investments in the sector as part of the national program for the computerization of society, despite material difficulties.

Although with a slight delay in the runway improvements, the Jardines del Rey International Airport is almost ready for the start of the high season of tourist operations in the Ciego de Ávila hub, scheduled for the month of November.

Alina Beltrán Castillo, national president of the Cuban Association of Agricultural and Forestry Technicians (ACTAF), recognized the performance of the members of that organization from the province of Ciego de Ávila, who are involved in strategic programs for the development of the agricultural sector in the country.

Democracy returned to say present this Friday when, in 71 nomination areas of the province, the direct and show of hands vote of its voters designated the first candidates for delegates of the municipal assemblies of People's Power, in a day that marked the start of this process in Ciego de Ávila.

In a complex economic context, the highest authorities of the province of Ciego de Ávila advocated greater organization and management of human and material resources for the successful development of the high tourist season in the Jardines del Rey destination.

Although on a societal and economic scale there are those who think not, and even fear it, an action of control, supervision, exchange or inspection always benefits the visited one.

If the potentialities and future of local development in the Ciego de Ávila municipality of Florencia are taken into account, it is evident that the Program for Strengthening Municipal Capacities for Local Development (PRODEL) has not advanced sufficiently during the year 2022, since it has reduced to starting the same projects that years ago could not find a way to come together definitively.

Around a hundred linemen from Ciego de Ávila do not cease in their efforts to restore the electrical service to the residents of the municipality of San Luis, in the province of Pinar del Río, one of the most affected by the passage of the meteor.

With the precedent of a popular referendum that distinguished the province for attendance at the polls and the quality of the vote, more than 331,900 voters from Ciego de Ávila must attend, starting tomorrow, the nomination meetings for candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assemblies of Popular Power (AMPP).

You might wonder, when you see where I am going with this text, what Perucho Figueredo has to do with electrical power or with food. What does it have to do with cell phones? How are we like those people who sang La Bayamesa from the first free city of Cuba 150 years ago?

Yesterday, the service was affected due to a generation capacity deficit throughout the day. The maximum impact during the night hours was 1,132 MW at 7:10 p.m., coinciding with the peak hour.

With new options for overcoming and incorporating the female force into economic and social development plans, the National Program for the Advancement of Women (PAM) materializes in Cuba, implemented since 2021 to promote gender equality and equal rights, opportunities and possibilities.

With the involvement of the legal profession, political, social and mass organizations, the province of Ciego de Ávila successfully implements the Family Code, a process that requires consistency in the preparation of the operators of this regulation, recently approved in the country by popular referendum.

Students and teachers from the José de la Luz y Caballero and Alfredo Miguel Aguayo elementary schools, in the city of Ciego de Ávila, participated in a meeting convened by the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution (ACRC), on the Day of the Combatants of the Fight against Bandits (LCB), commemorated this October 18.

With the purpose of supporting the development of the use of the Internet in Cuba for the benefit of citizens and raising the culture of the population in its useful and responsible employment, on the 26th, the II Forum of Internet Governance (IGF).

The highest political and government authorities of Ciego de Ávila recognized the leading role of young creators on the 36th anniversary of the Saíz Brothers Association.

Advising the decision-making process from a multidisciplinary perspective and taking advantage of the benefits and opportunities offered by the new Family Code was the focus of the debate at the First Family Workshop, convened by the People's Provincial Court in Ciego de Ávila.

Between October 21 and November 11, nomination meetings for candidates for delegates to the municipal assemblies of People's Power will take place throughout the country, a process that is being prepared in Ciego de Ávila according to the provisions of the Electoral Law.

To promote work with young people in order to consolidate the work of the socio-economic projects in which they are involved, advocated the Delegates at the National Balance Assembly of the Hydraulic Engineering Society held this Saturday in the central province of Ciego de Ávila.

The defense of the socialist homeland is a perennial task in the face of repeated threats from our historical enemy. Sufficient reasons to have the different structures and territorial defensive mechanisms "greased", fine-tuned, as well as to advance in the specification of missions and tasks.

The fingerling campaign at the Ciego de Ávila Fishing Company (EPIVILA) has performed well to date, which promises a guarantee of freshwater fish species to repopulate the province's aquariums and thus offer this food to the population.

The Belarusian Ministry of Health published this Wednesday a note on the arrival in the European country of the Cuban vaccine against covid-19 Sovereign Plus, from the Finlay Institute of Vaccines, for the treatment of the Belarusian population.

This Wednesday, the service was affected by generation capacity deficit throughout the day. The maximum impact at night was 1,414 MW at 8:00 p.m., coinciding with peak hour, including 111 MW due to damage caused by Hurricane Ian.

A year after the approval process for new actors in the Cuban economy began throughout the country; Ciego de Ávila already has more than a hundred active micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).

On the improvement and expansion of electronic commerce in Cuban Post office and the novelties of international money orders that will begin to be implemented starting next Friday, Liber Labrada Suárez, director of Marketing and Business of the Cuban Post office Group, commented at the Round Table.

The Electric Union reports that yesterday the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity throughout the day. The maximum impact during the night hours was 1,442 MW at 7:30 p.m., coinciding with the peak hour, of which 114 MW were due to the damage caused by Hurricane Ian.

Despite the fuel shortage, rail transport in Ciego de Ávila continues to show its face in the transfer of passengers, in an extremely complex context and in which inter-municipal and urban bus transport is almost non-existent.

In order to take advantage of and make better use of the fleet of traction equipment, a new departure schedule for national passenger trains, which travel along the country's central line, came into force as of Monday, October 10.

Solidarity among Cubans is manifested in various ways and one of them is the shipment of agricultural food from Ciego de Ávila to Pinar del Río, a province that received the hardest impact of Hurricane Ian.

On October 10, 1868, the first war for independence began in Cuba, before which we can ask ourselves different questions, such as why on October 10? What factors determined that start of the war in Cuba? Who was at the forefront of that movement? Why did Martí always refer to that event as a revolution? What symbolic value does that date have? These and many other questions can generate the commemoration on October 10 for Cubans.

Involve all the members of the always-young organization in its activities, reach a higher number of participants in the work of social impact and revolutionize the University Student Federation (FEU) are guidelines of the X Congress.

Workers from the Bio-food and Coastal Ecosystems research centers (CIBA and CIEC, respectively), in the province of Ciego de Ávila, joined the remaining 20 institutions of the Environment Agency in the country to support recovery in the territory of Pinar del Río after the passage of Hurricane Ian.

Salvador Valdés Mesa, vice president of the Republic of Cuba, convened to put order in the countryside and meet the productive commitments of the country and other provinces, in an exchange with directors of the agricultural sector of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

I don't love the Che on the bills, nor the one with the banners, the matchboxes and the key rings. I want a Che alive, who has not been able to release the light from within to turn him into a cold statue.

Why is it that Che has this dangerous habit of

continue to be born?

European and Cuban specialists share experiences and update themselves on surgical techniques for minimal access in Orthopedics, during the XVI International Symposium on Arthroscopy, Joint and Sports Surgery, which concludes today in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The news must not have gotten very far yet, because this Wednesday in the cafeteria of the popular Esquina Caliente, in the city of Ciego de Ávila, they sold full bars for 35.00 pesos and there was no queue.

I didn't meet him. When he was an inhabitant of the city (Las Tunas) I lived about 400 kilometers away, in Sancti-Spíritus. But I remember him with crystalline accuracy and it is not only because of that photo of him that the whole world has seen in newspapers, social networks, murals or in the memorial erected to the victims of terrorist sabotage against that Cubana plane, full of dreams and all the medals recently won by the Cuban youth fencing team, in Caracas, during the IV Central American and Caribbean Championship.

The workers of the Ciro Redondo mill ratified their productive commitments for the 2022-2023 harvest, before the highest political and government authorities of Ciego de Ávila.

International and Cuban professionals will come together, today and tomorrow, at the Sixteenth Ciego de Ávila Arthroscopy Symposium 2022, based at the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital.

On October 6, 1976, a crime against humanity deeply affected the people of Cuba: the blowing up of a civil aeronautics plane in which 73 people were travelling, including the victorious and youthful national fencing team that was returning home with all laurels, for his successful participation in the Central American and Caribbean Championship, held in Caracas, Venezuela.

Solidarity and love, in the midst of an economically complex scenario, are converging feelings among the participants in the XVI International Symposium on Arthroscopy, Joint Surgery and Sports Ciego de Ávila 2022, which from today until October 8 is held at the Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Hospital.

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Ciego de Ávila, urged Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Ciego de Ávila, to reinforce the work of political, social and mass organizations in revolutionary vigilance and confronting enemy activities in physical and virtual spaces.