With a concert by "La Familia de Morón" and Alexander Abreu with Havana D'Primera, the twentieth edition of Piña Colada, a fusion music festival that celebrates in style, will end tonight in the Máximo Gómez Báez square in Ciego de Ávila the anniversaries of the creation of the José Martí Pioneers Organization and the UJC.

In recent days, the news of a climate forecast for the Caribbean has circulated, highlighting the presence of heat waves in island areas such as Cuba. This has uncovered alarms and concerns among readers.

The electrical company of Ciego de Ávila, a collective with a heroic productive tradition and in the battle to recover the economy in the face of natural disasters, was selected to read the call to put hands and heart to the Homeland, in homage to the feast of the workers the coming May 1st.

The Cuban labor movement is preparing various activities this Monday to celebrate International Workers' Day, among which are productive days and the traditional parade of May1st.

It is not very difficult to guess that the fourth month of the year has already arrived when, these days, Ciego de Ávila turns into a party and youth in any corner, and the enthusiasm has plenty of reasons to celebrate next April 4, the 61st anniversaries of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) and 62 from the José Martí Pioneers Organization (OPJM).

On its second night, the Piña Colada Contemporary and Alternative Fusion Music Festival in Ciego de Ávila once again appeared young and vital, as if this were the first edition and not one that carries the challenge of reinventing itself 20 years later and celebrating in style the joys accumulated up to here. A priori, it is already achieving it.

The Communist Party of Cuba, the State and the people will give the defense services the utmost attention as long as imperialism exists, a sentiment that became a unanimous outcry in the celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the creation of the Central Army and among the inhabitants of the five provinces that make up the most stable Army in the Vanguard, as the Army General Raúl Castro defined.

With Rumbávila Fusión and Arnaldo and his talisman, the twentieth edition of the Piña Colada began this Friday in the Máximo Gómez Báez square in Ciego de Ávila.

With a master class on the influences of jazz in Cuban music by “Dayron Oney Peña y La Familia”, the Seventh Piña Colada Music and Youth Symposium ended successfully in its twentieth edition.

For the first time, Cuba uses nuclear science and technology in the study of the levels of heavy metals and radioactivity in the sands of several beaches in the west, center and east of the country.

The Electric Power Company estimates for the night peak hours an availability of 2,657 MW and a maximum demand of 2,650 MW, for a reserve of 7 MW, therefore, if the forecast conditions are maintained, an affectation of 63 MW is forecast in that schedule.

The awarding of the children's contest "Every drop counts" and an expo-fair where the main innovations of the companies and units of the hydraulic sector are shown, closed the event for World Water Day in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

6 164 876 Cubans attended the polls last Sunday, March 26, who attest to the transparency and adherence to the truth of these elections, Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez, president of the National Electoral Council (CEN) said this Thursday.

Dedicate the maximum effort to comply with the harvest during April and the first fortnight of May, even taking into account the still real possibilities of fulfilling the sugar plan as one of the two provinces in Cuba in a position to do so, and even contributing a little more; it was a cardinal issue addressed in the Governing Council of Ciego de Ávila corresponding to March.

The EnZona platform announced that you can now pay for your Nauta Hogar service from your cell phone. Enzona is an electronic payment platform that allows transactions to be carried out quickly, safely and without leaving home. With Enzona, you can pay your Nauta Hogar account through Enzona, a virtual wallet that offers you benefits and facilities.

The development of environmental diagnoses as a way to support the management of different economic institutions in the country constitutes one of the actions through which the Ciego de Ávila Center for Environmental Bioengineering and Biodiversity (CIBA) contributes to the economic recovery of the Greater of the Antilles.

The consecration, organization of work, dedication, the dedication of doctors and paramedics, together with the political will of the State in the care of the human being, constitute determining factors for Ciego de Ávila to exhibit the lowest infant mortality in the country, with 2 .3 deaths for every thousand children under one year of age born alive.

With the Seventh Music and Youth Symposium, the twentieth edition of the Piña Colada Fusion Music Festival began this Wednesday at the Máximo Gómez Báez University in Ciego de Ávila.

Roberto Morales Ojeda, Member of the Political Bureau and Organization Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, congratulated the people of Ciego de Ávila by telephone for the results obtained in the 2023 National Elections.

Cuba is by tradition an eminently agricultural country, so it is wise to use related terms to start this comment with which I believe that with the general elections of the last hours another fruitful harvest of patriotism was achieved and a timely replanting of unity of action to further enhance the future of the Homeland.

The title comes from this: after the first two minutes of the game, Los Búfalos led 12-2, but the final score was against them (78-81). Believe yourself in small enemies in the Superior League of Basketball. Or will it be the beginning of the end of a reign of ten crowns?

A total of 16 students receive education at home by outpatient teachers in Morón, an option for those who attend Primary and Secondary education, and have physical-motor or intellectual limitations and, for these or other reasons, cannot attend educational institutions.

Fusion, alternative and contemporary music is the musical cocktail that from March 29 to April 4 proposes the Piña Colada Festival in Ciego de Ávila, an event that returns to its rights with a tight program of activities to celebrate, in style, 20 years of permanence and popularity from the center of the Island.

The implementation of the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Health program in Cuba with more than 15 years ago demonstrates its value in Ciego de Ávila by promoting assistance to an increasingly aged population that suffers from different ailments.

The passage of a cold front with its associated rains in recent days has caused a pause in the current sugar harvest in Ciego de Ávila, which needs to move forward without wasting time to recover the arrears in its sugar plan.

With more than 86 % turnout at the polls and more than 50 % of the valid votes cast, Ciego de Ávila elected its 23 deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power, which will take possession of its X Legislature on April 19th. The preliminary data of the vote, whose basic provincial part amounted to 341,438 voters, were issued by the Provincial Electoral Council (CEP).

Ortelio González Martínez, from the Granma newspaper, won the National Prize for Economic Journalism in the written press category, with the report Bioelectric Power Plant from the Ciro Redondo factory: dreams of a divorced marriage, published in the Invasor newspaper.

Alina Balseiro, president of the National Electoral Council (CEN) of Cuba, informed the press of the preliminary results of the 2023 national election process, held this Sunday, March 26.

Once again, the people of Ciego de Ávila amply demonstrated their revolutionary civility by going to the polls en masse and demonstrating this Sunday their unbreakable political unity, which calls not only for patriotic commitment and civic responsibility, but also for virtuous utility.

A little more and we agree with our detractors: Cuban democracy is not perfect. It can be improved. It would be necessary to see if it is, the one that is exercised in other parts of the planet.

This March 26 will be another Sunday marked by the hustle and bustle at the polls, when the citizens from Ciego de Ávila, like the rest of the Cubans, assert their right to vote to designate those who will represent them for the next five years in the Assembly National of People's Power.

March is a month of great events. First, a Team Asere that once again shakes the Island from end to end, while the baseball passion, at times hopeless, recovers the illusion. Moreover, almost without leaving the euphoria of being among the four greats of world baseball, this Sunday will be another one of those days to keep in history. Tomorrow at the polls, the vote for those who will make up the X Legislature of the National Assembly of People's Power will also mean support for that prosperous future that, against all odds, we will not renounce.

The Ministry of Internal Commerce (Mincin) informs today that the nuclei made up of ten or more consumers will be able to make a breakdown, with the aim of facilitating access to the products of the regulated family basket and other controlled ones.

With closing plenaries in its ten municipalities, Ciego de Ávila intensifies actions to guarantee a resounding democratic victory this Sunday, March 26, during the national elections of deputies to the Cuban Parliament in its X Legislature.

More than 10 patients from Ciego de Ávila, affected with the amnestic Alzheimer's phenotype, will participate in the clinical trial of the Cuban drug NeuralCIM, whose third phase began in the last days of February throughout the country.

Not because it was solemn or because of the seriousness that distinguishes such a ceremony, the inauguration of a group of judges renounced that freshness and joy that young people bring to everything they do.

Two years ago, few people would have believed that a 29-year-old boy could run a hospital besieged by COVID-19, which in one of its many critical moments saw oxygen saturation drop, while consumption multiplied by eight and blood pressure stopped expressing itself in bars, to be measured in "rush situations".

The rains of the last few days, associated with the thirteenth cold front of the 2022-2023 winter season and cloud flows preceding its path, do not lead us to believe that the impact of the drought has subsided appreciably for this reason.

Almost every day, I talk to him via the Internet, which is like saying that almost every day I discuss baseball with him, because there is no way that our friendship, from childhood, youth, and part of old age, is not sprinkled by that sport that saw us grow and witnessed our friendship, "forever and ever", as he described it in his first message after "moving" from the neighborhood.

Early in the morning of this Wednesday, March 23, in the José Martí Park in the provincial capital, Team Tigers, from Ciego de Ávila, received the flag that they will hoist in the upcoming 62nd National Baseball Series (SNB).

The development of the infrastructure for the cultivation of postures is defined as a strength in the province of Ciego de Ávila, for the increase in forest cover and the recovery of affected areas during the current critical season of forest fires.

This Monday, the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva relaunched "Mais Médicos" (More Doctors), a program created in the administration of Dilma Rousseff to alleviate the lack of health professionals in poor and isolated areas, and which was neglected by the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.

Next March 26th, when the 912 polling stations that will function in the province for the election of deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power open their doors, Ciego de Ávila can carry out a democratic exercise with the highest possible quality. It was the purpose with which this Sunday the dynamic test took place, aimed at evaluating the existing conditions in the places enabled for suffrage and the preparation of the electoral authorities at different levels.

This Sunday, it will give an ultimatum to the preparations for the national elections, scheduled to take place on March 26th, when Ciego de Ávila develops the dynamic test, convened by the National Electoral Council, with the purpose of verifying in situ all the components of the electoral system at the base and fine-tuning the conditions that allow the development of a quality democratic exercise, from which those who will represent us for the next five years in the nation's highest body of legislative power will emerge.

The National Electric System (SEN by its Spanish initials) reported that yesterday there were no effects on the electric service due to a deficit in generation capacity. The availability of the SEN at 07:00 today is 2,840 megawatts (MW) and the demand is 1,820 MW, with the entire system in service.

The meeting in the neighborhood and in workplaces with the protagonists of economic and social events, with a view to learn about their concerns and contribute to the solution of everyday problems, is the priority of the candidates for deputies to the National Assembly of Popular Power, for the municipality of Ciro Redondo, located in the center of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

With 24 polling stations and more than 11,400 voters, residents of the Roberto Rivas Fraga Popular Council in Ciego de Ávila, expressed their support for the election of deputies and their participation in the polls on March 26 in their vote for Cuba.

"The cane is here today and time is giving us the chance to grind, now we have the decisive effort of 60 days in which we must use all the available resources, plus the incentive of the men to make the volumes of sugar committed," he said to the press Eduardo Larrosa Vázquez, director of coordination and technical supervision of Azcuba Sugar Group in Ciego de Ávila, about the imperative to reduce lost time as much as possible.

More than formal acts, they are dialogues in which the need to know the worries and concerns of the people prevails and to reflect on the current urgencies of the country, this is how the tours and exchanges that the candidates for deputies for the province Ciego de Ávila carry out these days in the national elections scheduled for Sunday March 26.

The Electric Power Company (UNE by its Spanish initials) reports that yesterday the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity from 05:58 to 20:00 last night (2:02 p.m.).

After losing the last out that gave Cuba the victory over Australia 4-3 and with it the ticket to the semifinal phase of the V World Baseball Classic, personally the first thing I felt was enormous joy and the second thing I remembered what I wrote in this same space two years ago.

To almost 50,000 people, in less than two months, the number of beneficiaries in this province rises with the free solidarity transport modality, put into practice due to the deterioration of the public transport service and the decrease in the coefficient of technical availability of the park of existing vehicles in the province.

For Viviana Martínez Cárdenas, the days usually start very early and end when the next day almost begins. Her mobile phone can ring so much that not even she herself dares to estimate how many times in a day she answers it.

At the beginning of 1878, Máximo Gómez wrote about the insurgent camp in his War Diary: “A complete demoralization is noted and everyone's spirits are overwhelmed; both because of the constant operations of the enemy and because of the division of the Cubans”.

It all started with a meme and ended up being the seal of the Cuba team in the World Baseball Classic. The Facebook page El Pelotazo, dedicated to baseball memes, was the first to use the nickname Asere Team, which has gone viral since the Cuba team made its debut in the V World Baseball Classic.

This March 14 marks the 131st anniversary of the newspaper Patria circulating for the first time to, according to its founder, "gather and arm and live in the passion of the truth"; the same passion that has remained unscathed over time in those who strive every day, from the journalistic practice, to tell reality with all its nuances.

The Cuban team defeated its similar team from Australia four races to three in the monumental Tokyo Dome stadium, in Japan, to go to the semifinal phase, to be played in the US city of Miami, starting on Sunday.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the best Cuban basketball players of both genders will be seen in action at the Giraldo Córdova Cardín Hall, not only in the traditional Eastern vs. Western Teams Game, but in various skills competitions that will take place in the All-Star Game of the Superior Basketball League, which Ciego de Ávila will once again host.

This Tuesday, March 13, with the endless mission of safeguarding local and national history, the Coronel Simón Reyes Hernández Provincial Museum reached four decades after its inauguration the date on which the Assault on the Presidential Palace and the takeover of Radio Reloj are commemorated; actions in which Pedro Martínez Brito and José Assef Yara, from Ciego de Ávila, participated.

Defining each day who receives or does not receive a blood donation in Ciego de Ávila does not depend exclusively on exact medical criteria, but also the existing stock availability of both provincial hospitals, which for a long time have accounted for the minimum essential to save lives and not enough to eliminate scares and guarantee the quality of care.

Eight writers recently awarded in national literary contests were recognized during the closing of the Thirty-first Book Fair in Ciego de Ávila.

"No, really: I don't believe it." Santa Massiel Rueda Moreno leans back on the sofa in her office, a small place with a sign on the door that identifies her role as provincial president of the Saíz Brothers Association (AHS by its Spanish initials) in Ciego de Ávila.

In a meeting with the political cadres of the main municipality, the assurance actions were verified with a view to the elections for deputies of the National Assembly of Popular Power on March 26.

National and foreign organizations participating in the international Coastal Resilience (RC) project confirmed the use of resources available to strengthen disaster risk reduction (DRR) and adaptation to climate change (ACC) in four coastal settlements in the center of northern Cuba.

From this Thursday to March 12, the XXXI Book Fair in Ciego de Ávila promises to transform the city into a party and inaugurates the challenge of going from printed titles to digital ones as an alternative to increase the offer in the face of the deficit of resources, which prevented completing editorial cycles on time and in the country. Although the options will not be fewer, the formats will change.

The adverse panorama that the worsening of the meteorological drought in Ciego de Ávila draws leads us to formulate the unavoidable question of whether the available water will be enough to carry out the various activities for the normal development of socioeconomic life in the coming months.

Achieving progress to the postseason and, subsequently, improving the fourth seat in the previous fair, are the objectives of the Ciego de Ávila team, which was announced this Thursday at a meeting chaired by Liván Izquierdo Alonso, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and top political leader in the province.

The organizational capacity and willingness of the local authorities, communities and organizations involved in the international Mi Costa project to advance in the fight against climate change (CC) was recognized by the highest representatives in Cuba of this global initiative.

How do we dream of school? How do we want the country? What to do to achieve it? These are three of the questions that are currently stimulating debate within the Federation of High School Students (FEEM) in Ciego de Ávila, immersed in a process that places a critical eye on the organization's operation.

This Thursday, March 9, the announcement of the Ciego de Ávila team that will represent the province in the upcoming 62nd National Baseball Series is scheduled. The team, who will debut on the 23rd against Industriales at the Latin-American stadium, must present a squad with many possibilities in attack and defense, but with a skilled pitching that is the great unknown, after the absences of Yander Guevara and Dachel Duquesne.

The monitoring of electricity consumption in the province during February concluded with an accumulated plan below expectations, but the analysis of the demands at peak times revealed imbalances and non-compliance, a pending task of the highest priority.

When the February numbers were still being processed this Tuesday and two months seemed like a short time to judge compliance with the plans, Ernesto Herrera Pérez, deputy technical director of the Provincial Housing Directorate, was already ahead of his criteria: "we have started better than last year. The resources have been more stable”.

Watching him play, seeing the drive, the precision of his touch, the strength of his punches and that constant siege of the opposing goal, these days I have realized that field hockey, the one that is within my reach right now, is a sport for mischievous and scholars.

Hydraulic works in the country and strategic sectors, such as agriculture, will have a guarantee this year for high-density polyethylene pipes and connections manufactured at the Ciegoplast Company, in Ciego de Ávila, the first of its kind in Cuba.

The strengthening of spaces such as the Women and Family Orientation Houses, the progress in the implementation of the National Program for the Advancement of Women, as well as the increasing number of women who hold key management positions and work in strategic sectors of the economy, are among the results that allowed Ciego de Ávila to ratify its status as an outstanding province in the emulation that the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) develops every year, on the occasion of International Women's Day.

The Nicolás Guillén Foundation of Ciego de Ávila recognized Santa Massiel Rueda Moreno with the Sitio Viejo distinction, for being a faithful exponent of the creative spirit of the youth of Ciego de Ávila.

Nobility or humility are not trained or bought in a pharmacy on duty. The chronicler cannot affirm that one is born with it..., or it is made in the struggle of life. However, Randol Izquierdo Rodríguez, a young man who will turn 19 next December 4, seems to have spent an eternity with those attributes.

With the delivery of a floral offering to José Martí in the central park that has his name, the Provincial Day for Cuban Press began this Wednesday in Ciego de Ávila.

The construction of 21 new bridges on the causeway that connects the Jardines del Rey tourist destination with the mainland, through the application of post-tensioning technology (ideal for its resistance and duration of 50 or more years), and the pertinent maintenance in the face of the ravages of the sea, are results of which the Provincial Highway Center, patron of roads of national interest in Ciego de Ávila, can rejoice.

The mere nomination of candidate for deputy of the National Assembly of People's Power constitutes pride for each one of the 23 Ciego de Ávila citizens who currently have that status.

The assembly of an automatic meteorological station (EMA) in the coastal town of Punta Alegre, northwest of Ciego de Ávila, will strengthen the early warning system (SAT) in the north-central region of Cuba to face extreme hydro-meteorological phenomena and other effects of climate change (CC).

When the Provincial Directorate of Economy and Planning issued its year-end report in January, the chapter on losses in the agricultural sector had only this single line of praise: "the Invasive Livestock Route shows a discreet downward trend."

Some 18 recreational houses on the popular Cunagua beach, in the municipality of Bolivia, were reduced to ashes after a raging fire spread on Sunday through these buildings made of wood and palm roofs.

Pharmacy workers take to the fair in Ciego de Ávila the sale of exponents of natural and traditional medicine as another treatment alternative for different diseases.

That from the comfort of your cell phone you can pay for electricity, transfer money, request a birth registration or arrange an appointment to buy liquefied gas, are some of the benefits inherited from the computerization of a society that aspires to digital transformation.

The title is not wrong. There will be no waltz, nor are they just 15 years of an ephemeris, it is, yes, that the team of this discipline of the sport from Ciego de Ávila, this Volcano always in eruption, made true this Saturday the commitment to win its 15th title in the history of the National Field Hockey Championships.

These days, the 23 people from Ciego de Ávila, candidates for deputies to the National Assembly of People's Power, toured every corner of the province of Ciego de Ávila in a frank act of reciprocal learning.

The provincial delegation of the Union of Informaticians of Cuba (UIC) in Ciego de Ávila will develop an instructive fair of computerized services oriented to the population, next Monday, at Cooppelia, located on the boulevard of the Ciego de Ávila.

The provincial act in Ciego de Ávila for the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) will go down in history as one of the most colorful of all that have been organized in this territory. Some data confirm it.

Little more than a month separates us from the general elections, scheduled for March 26, in which Ciego de Ávila will elect the 23 deputies in charge of representing us in the National Assembly of People's Power, but from now on each day counts in order to prepare the conditions that ensure an electoral process with quality and attached to transparency and ethics.

With a familiarization flight made up of travel agents and tour operators, the Monterey-Havana-Jardines del Rey air route was inaugurated this Wednesday, which will bring Mexican tourists closer to both destinations in Cuba.

The actions of the energy councils of Ciego de Ávila, at all levels, in the search for reserves and to put an end to waste, remains a prioritized task, without losing sight of the validity of the measures to lower the loads of electricity consumption , especially at peak times, in the face of a national energy contingency that has not been overcome.

Danilo Fernández Madrigal, director of the Ciro Redondo Agro-industrial Sugar Company, took the well-known phrase “tie your pants” as a synonym for acting with firmness, energy and determination. "With the belt in the last hole" the engineer said.

A new donation received the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Hospital in Ciego de Ávila, from Cubans living in Spain.

The Electric Power Company (UNE by its Spanish initials) estimates for the night peak hour an availability of 2,451 MW and a maximum demand of 2,865 MW, with a deficit of 414 MW, so if the forecast conditions are maintained, an affectation of 484 MW is forecast in this schedule.

• Cuban democracy, genuine, authentic – not imported – has a last name: socialist. Its essence lies in citizen participation, in the right of all people to take part in the economic, political and social construction of the nation.

The pawned word of the farmers is usually the law in the countryside, is that why they take so much care of it, saving themselves from possible violations or stumbling blocks? On the other hand, could it be that some bet whims trying to find a reality that fits their commitments and not vice versa? How far will what has been agreed become meat and milk, or will it remain in the stretch that goes from saying to fact?

The Ciego de Ávila squad defeated Las Tunas one with authority (4-0) to confirm that it is not for nothing that the specialists consider it a favorite to retain the title, one of the 14 that it has already accumulated in the history of the National Field Hockey Championships. 

The young creators of Ciego de Ávila discussed this Saturday core issues of organic life and artistic creation during their assembly process, prior to the 4th National Congress of the Saíz Brothers Association (AHS).

Beyond the charm caused by the beautiful landscapes, recognized for aesthetic and natural values ​​of the Bamburanao mountain range, and the links established for work and academic reasons, the municipality of Florencia arouses special admiration in Reina de la Caridad Torres Pérez.