• 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.

The Great Northern Wetland of Ciego de Ávila (GHNCA), declared a Ramsar Site in 2002 due to its natural values ​​of international importance, held this weekend the XVI edition of the artistic-cultural festival dedicated to the promotion of good environmental practices in that flora and fauna reservoir.

Judges and workers of the People's Provincial Court of Ciego de Ávila have reasons to continue encouraged throughout this 2023.

The Electric Power Company forecasts an availability of 2,674 MW and a maximum demand of 2,770 MW for Monday's night peak hour, for a deficit of 96 MW, therefore, if the forecast conditions continue, an impact of 166 is estimated. MW at this time.

The candidates for deputies for the municipality of Morón, Mayelín Luís Pérez and Arnaldo Rodríguez Romero, continued this week the exchanges in labor and student centers, as well as in other places of economic and social interest in the territory, always entertained by workers, students and town in general.

Led by Carlos Manuel Consuegra (Catín), scorer of three goals, Volcán Avileño, Cuba's 15-time starter in first-class tournaments, defeated Villa Clara (5-1) in the National Field Hockey Championship, based in the recently opened synthetic terrain, in this city.

Even though there is more than a month left for the general elections to which Ciego de Ávila will bring 23 candidates for deputies, the head municipality —with five representatives for that national seat— begins to adjust a process in which some 117,000 voters will participate.

With the presence of Liván Izquierdo Alonso, Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, the political-cultural gala for the Day of the Art Instructor in this central province took place this Saturday in the central José Martí Park.

Someday, parents will tell their children the story of how they came into the world and there will be no minor stories. Perhaps, they were not more desired than the rest of the little ones whom his family began to love since they were just an embryo in the womb; but, in their cases, the road traveled before the happy birth will have overcome that of many because it is difficult and anguishing.

At the Cuba Soy Agricultural Company, the exchange of its two nominees for deputies with the people in the municipality of Venezuela ended this Friday.

The completion of the new structure of the government bodies in Florencia and Primero de Enero, the existing development strategy in those territories and the pressures of production to win the food sovereignty race were issues checked by Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa , who urged to understand that the economic, political and social life of the country is decided in the municipality.

In search of the eleventh crown, the Búfalos from Ciego de Ávila, current champions, will start this Friday when the 2023 Superior Basketball League starts and they face the current runner-up, Sancti Spíritus, in the covered room Giraldo Córdova Cardín of Ciego de Ávila.

A decisive boost in stabilization, after leaving behind industrial failures and achieving a greater contribution from the cane harvest, is what the sugar harvest in Ciego de Ávila requires to cut its arrears gradually.

When the architect Zussell Sarmiento Aguilera talks about procedures that must be completed in 50 days and reports the pending that have been accumulating throughout 2022, she must admit a truism: “we have a great delay. 269 ​​files is the last number, although that is constantly moving, it may not be exact anymore today”.

The young creator from Ciego de Ávila, Yasmani Rodríguez Alfaro, obtained a mention with the text "Ojos de Gatos", in the Children's and Youth category at the 2023 Calendar Awards of the Saíz Brothers Association.

In its morning report, the Electrical Power Company informed that yesterday the service was not affected due to a deficit in generation capacity.

The Sports sector in Ciego de Ávila has the first field for practicing baseball five (B5), a street version of the classic baseball-softball game that is gaining more followers every day, mainly young people.

When two weeks ago the Diagnostic and Orientation Centers (CDO) of Florencia and the main municipality were accredited with the Certificate category —as part of the process of improving Cuban education—, seven of the ten municipal centers of this type with which account Ciego de Ávila managed to accredit themselves and thus guarantee their quality in the psycho-pedagogical diagnosis, orientation and monitoring of learning deficiencies from an early age.

The lessons of the intense drought that affected the province between 2014 and 2017 were well learned in Ciego de Ávila, to the point that, at the end of January, when 62 percent of the national territory fell below the accumulated historical figures for rainfall, the calls for the rational use of water have not been long in coming.

Yorelvis Charles does not want to err on the side of optimism, but he does not want to be pessimistic either, so when he is asked about the possibilities of the Ciego de Ávila team in the upcoming 62nd National Baseball Series, he does not take long to answer that the purpose is to be back in the post-season…, but that the task will not be easy.

Farmers from the province of Ciego de Ávila began the potato harvest on Tuesday, of which 950 hectares (ha) were planted, 170 less than in the previous campaign, but with the good news that this campaign had on time fertilizers.

Because teaching is a profession of infinite love, two couples of professors from the Máximo Gómez Báez University in Ciego de Ávila were married on February 14 in the Legal Department of this center of higher studies.

With a cultural gala at the centenary Iriondo Theater in Ciudad de los Portales, the creation of the Cepil Company of Plastic Items Juan Antonio Márquez, an entity founded by the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter, on February 13, 1963, was celebrated on Monday.

In the next few hours, the waters from the Zaza-Ciego de Ávila transfer canal will benefit the first 30 hectares planted with rice belonging to the Limones Palmero agricultural project, in the municipality of Majagua, in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Transporting 155,681 passengers through freight and interurban services is the plan of the Base Business Unit (UEB) of National Buses in Ciego de Ávila, a figure not as pretentious as that of 2022, which was not consummated and amounted to more than 230,000.

With the sales plan corresponding to the first month of 2023 fulfilled, the Juan Antonio Márquez Brush and Plastic Items Company, Cepil, from Ciego de Ávila, celebrates its 60th anniversary on February 13. At that founding moment, as it is known, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, promoter of the industry in Cuba, was there.

Doctors Alemy Paret Rodríguez, a pediatrician, and Arnaldo Yadró Jiménez, a psychiatrist, both from Ciego de Ávila, are already in Turkey to assist victims of the earthquake that part of that nation suffered.

The application of alternatives to diversify productions from a better use of soybeans, tropical fruits and other products constitutes one of the main objectives for this year of the Dairy Products Company in Ciego de Ávila.

In 1958, precisely on February 9, they found the body of the fighter from Ciego de Ávila, Alfredo Gutiérrez Lugones, with more bullets than age in Santiago de Cuba, after he came down from the Sierra Maestra in search of medical attention for a hernia.

Social Communication as a strategic resource of the Revolution focused the analysis on the challenges of the branch of the Cuban Association of Social Communicators of Ciego de Ávila, in a meeting led by the National President Rosa María Pérez Gutiérrez.

The momentary failure of one of the veteran KTP-2M combine harvester encourages rapid dialogue. The presentation, very brief, gives way to the exchange. Breaking the ice, Iván Paz Pérez de Corcho, general manager of the Artex Branch breaks the ice by being interested in the results of the group in terms of productivity, compliance with the days and customer service.

In a simple observation, it can be seen that the pharmacies of Ciego de Ávila are generally crowded, with queues and turmoil, on Wednesdays and Thursdays of alternate fortnights, in which it is usual to receive orders for medicines that are dispensed through the control card.

When Daylin Suárez's cane embedded the ball into the Sancti Spiritus goal, in the 49th minute, she was not only giving the Avila team a 2-1 victory, but she was going down in history as the author of the winning goal in the first title of the National Women's Hockey Championship played on the brand new synthetic hockey field in Ciego de Ávila.

The planning of 34 actions and a budget of more than 336 million 845,000 pesos will allow the province of Ciego de Ávila to advance in compliance with the Cuban State Plan to confront climate change (Life Task) during the year 2023.

At 8:00 in the morning on Tuesday, the more than 400 students of the Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Pre-University Institute were not in the classrooms, but in the small square waiting for a class for the unit that would be given by the candidates for deputies of the National Assembly of People's Power for the municipality of Ciego de Ávila.

The most numerous return of irregular migrants by the Bahamian authorities to Cuba took place this Wednesday, February 8, when 130 people (107 men, 22 women and one minor) returned on a flight from that country through the José Martí International Airport in Havana, reported the Ministry of the Interior.

Three people from Ciego de Ávila make up the advance guard of the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics, who will shortly assist the victims of the earthquake that occurred in Syria and Turkey.

Making knowledge and science from academia have a greater impact on the development of municipalities is the biggest challenge facing the Center for the Preparation and Improvement of Cadres, which was inaugurated this Tuesday at the Manuel Ascunce Domenech headquarters, from the Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila (UNICA).

The satisfaction of achieving compliance with the proposed plan became the commitment of the group of workers of the Provincial Highway Center to guarantee the conservation of roads of national interest.

The issue of agricultural companies with losses is old and well known in the national economic sphere. It lacerates these entities, their workers and the population. The causes were basically productive inefficiency and lack of access to inputs and technologies, but the monetary system brought another: design.

In what some consider one of the matches with the highest technical level and, in addition, combativeness on the part of both sides, Ciego de Ávila beat Camagüey in a penalty shootout and thus won the right to be in the grand final of the National Women's Field Hockey Championship that takes place on the shiny synthetic field from Ciego de Ávila.

Regarding the Day of the Art Instructor, Ciego de Ávila will hold its Provincial Council of the José Martí Art Instructors Brigade from this Tuesday until Wednesday.

The possibilities of applying artificial intelligence (AI) in prioritized sectors were evaluated during an exchange of the affiliate of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC) in the Camagüey‒Ciego de Ávila region with representatives of various organizations and researchers from the latter province.

With 42 school weeks for the development of academic, labor and research teaching activities, the school year begins on February 6 at the Máximo Gómez Báez University in Ciego de Ávila.

This Sunday, the 10 Municipal Assemblies of People's Power met in Ciego de Ávila, nominating 23 candidates for deputies of the National Assembly.

This Sunday, another transcendental day for the Cuban electoral system will be that of in Ciego de Ávila, when, in extraordinary session, the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power will meet to nominate the candidates for deputies to Parliament, an important exercise in democracy from which the possible future representatives of the people in the highest body of legislative power in the country.

Of the triad of indicators considered fundamental in the 2022 Economy Plan in Ciego de Ávila, only net sales managed to meet (and even exceed) the forecast, generating 12,241.6 million pesos, even though 32 companies did not They came close to their planning. If we want to understand the apparent contradiction, let us think about the price increase experienced last year, at all levels.

The international project Mi Costa begins to take its first steps in Ciego de Ávila from the methodological point of view and the training of personnel, in order to guarantee resilience to climate change on the southern coast of the municipalities of Venezuela and Baraguá, through adaptation based on in ecosystems.

If the statistics speak of stability and favorable results, why do customer complaints persist? The question aroused abundant reflections this Friday in a meeting of the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, with representatives of the companies that receive and distribute the packages that arrive in Cuba from abroad destined for natural persons.

The multi-laureate judoka from Ciego de Ávila, Jorge Martínez Wilson will participate in one of the most difficult tournaments in his sporting life, when he goes out this Sunday to the AccorArena multipurpose room, to dispute a place in the 81 kilograms —the most popular division, with 60 athletes— in the Grand Slam of Paris, which will be held on the fourth and fifth of this month in the City of Light.

More than 40 years have passed since Andrés García Palmo played shortstop for those teams from the municipality of Bolivia, in provincial baseball tournaments, and, although he never managed to wear the Ciego de Ávila uniform in national championships, he did not withdrew from the sports sphere in his career.

Beekeepers from Ciego de Ávila create more hives from the beginning of the year to have a higher number of them in the period from October to December, the period with the highest flowering, which allows them to fulfill the annual plan of 412 tons of honey.

The Electrical Power Union in its daily information communicates that this Friday, January 3, an availability of 2810 MW and a maximum demand of 2780 MW are estimated for the peak hour, for a reserve of 30 MW, therefore, if the forecast conditions are maintained, it is forecast an affectation to the service of 40 MW at this time.

The wave amplifier built in the Jardines del Rey tourist destination achieves a positive impact on the recovery of Laguna Larga —a reservoir near the Muthu Colonial, Tryp Cayo Coco and Mojito hotels— by maintaining stable conditions in the coastal ecosystem.

The Vice Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), Adianez Taboada Zamora, urged the implementation of the circular economy in the tourist facilities of the Jardines del Rey destination, north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, to make better use of resources and reduce aggressions to the environment.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Cuba reported today through social networks about the arrival in Havana Bay of a new 240-megawatt (MW) floating power plant, to support electricity generation in the country.

In response to complaints, opinions and suggestions from the population, related to the sale of essential products in national currency in chain stores, a recent decision by the highest authorities of the province indicated a return to the old distribution mechanism, by constituencies and Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), but presenting the supply booklet.

For two months now, Cubadebate users have been referring to problems with connectivity in their comments. Among the most common signs are low speeds while browsing mobile data and the interruption of voice and data services at certain times of the day. What's going on?

To be elected as a delegate of the People's Power in a constituency is to have gained the trust of the citizens of the community, who bet on the values ​​of who is going to represent them before authorities and officials to solve general or personal problems.

The electricity sector in Ciego de Ávila has several projections for 2023 with a view to the gradual recovery of the stability of its service, highly deteriorated in the last two years due to the generation deficit of important plants and the limitations of resources necessary to offer maintenance to infrastructures.

A new visual identifier, adjusted to the precepts of the recently approved Family Code, will exhibit, starting next month, the 171 houses for guidance to women and families in the country, as a result of a creative process gestated in Ciego de Ávila.

The Electric Power Company estimates that for the night peak hours of this Tuesday there will be an availability of 2,732 MW and a maximum demand of 2,720 MW, for a reserve of 12 MW. If the predicted conditions are maintained, an affectation to the service of 58 MW is forecast at that time.

The behavior of the sugarcane cutting and shooting tasks in Morón was analyzed in the actual scenarios of the current sugar harvest by leaders of the Communist Party of Cuba and the government in the territory.

Around 73,000 megawatts (MW) from Renewable Energy Sources (FRE) were delivered to the National Electro-energy System (SEN) in 2022. Of these, 25% contributed by the three solar parks currently operating in Ciego de Ávila.

The gradual recovery of the Júcaro wetlands stands out among the results of the international project My Coast, which is implemented on the southern coast of the municipalities of Baraguá and Venezuela.

Last Saturday, Sergio Gutiérrez Perdomo passed away. We reissued the interview that appeared in Invasor five years ago. One should not talk about the sports movement in Ciego de Ávila without mentioning the name of whoever was the first sports director of the province.

Keeping the largest amount of equipment rolling on rails to reduce the time lost in the production of sugar during the present harvest in the Ciego de Avila sugar mills, was one of the main commitments in the provincial act for the Day of the Railway Worker, in Ciego de Ávila.

With a couple of round trips in the morning and then in the afternoon, from Monday to Friday ―Saturday only in the morning―, administrative cars from all the organizations in Ciego de Ávila transport between 500 and 600 passengers on two routes from the capital provincial.

The Balance Assembly of the Provincial Sports Directorate was not a meeting to worship praise and applause. The achievements of 2022 were not ignored, but going to the causes of the tasks that were not fulfilled and how to solve, mitigate and prevailed them, even when the resources are not, in most cases, within reach.

Even though it is a very short time to make an analysis, a week after the entry into force of a new modality of distribution of basic necessities in national currency, the authorities of Ciego de Ávila took the pulse of this highly sensitive issue for the population.

The streets of the city of Ciego de Ávila were illuminated on Friday night with the fire of hundreds of torches, in a march of young people called to not let the legacy of José Martí die.

That Martí lives is a certainty that comes alive every January, while all of Cuba follows in the footsteps of those young people who on the centenary of his birth did not want to let their ideas die and staged a March of the Torches that, since then, has been evoked and tribute for the most universal of the children of this earth.

Receiving more than 663,200 physical tourists, of which more than 400,800 are international, is the main objective of the development plan for the Jardines del Rey tourist destination this year.

Yesterday, the Electrical Power Company reported that the service was affected from 10:54 a.m. to 12:14 p.m., with a maximum of 79 MW, due to high transfers to the central-eastern area that caused low tensions in that region.

For almost 25 years, the Center for Research on Coastal Ecosystems (CIEC) has exceeded the limits of the Jardines del Rey archipelago —a space where it establishes itself as a guarantor of environmental protection and sustainable development— to bring environmental education to communities in the municipality of Morón, in the center‒north of the province of Ciego de Ávila.

There is a series of practices that damage the battery and that you could be doing without realizing it, so below you will learn about them so that you can put an end to it once and for all or at least try to reduce the times that you carry them out so that the battery lasts longer.

At the end of 2022, the delivery of hydraulic works with use value for the supply and sanitation to the population, the solution to historical approaches and the execution of works associated with the hotel development in the Jardines del Rey destination were left in Ciego de Ávila, all of them at through investment processes.

The announcement at the beginning of the year has already come true. This Wednesday, a seismological station was installed in Florence, as part of the expansion of the Seismological and Tsunami Alert System, which will allow the permanent monitoring of seismicity in the national territory and its surroundings.

Starting on February 1, in Ciego de Ávila, as in all of Cuba, the rates for services at the Computing and Electronics Youth Club will be modified for natural and legal people.

Yesterday, the service was affected due to capacity deficit from 06:12 to 01:49 in the morning (20:37 minutes).

In a note addressed to Invasor Newspaper, the CIMEX Corporation Branch in Ciego de Ávila clarifies two aspects related to the communication published on January 19. A new product distribution modality is implemented in Ciego de Ávila

Somewhat sleepy, cold as the days of this month, the activities of cutting and shooting cane have begun in areas of the Primero de Enero Agri-industrial Sugar Company (EAA).

After accumulating 7.5 points out of 11 possible, the Grand Master (GM) Luis Ernesto Quesada (2551), from Ciego de Ávila, placed fourth in the qualifying tournament for the Central American and Caribbean Games San Salvador 2023, and thus obtained the ticket for that appointment of the area in the coming summer.

The enrollment process for the 2023 academic year at the Máximo Gómez Báez University in Ciego de Ávila begins on January 23 and will last until February 3.

What's strange about it? It's just an exchange of applause. They have not stopped supporting their Tigers in the history of our Baseball National Series. It is normal then that the sports movement in Ciego de Avila applauds them in these 30 years in that difficult and important sport that is the economy.

The training of professionals, methodological advice in different organizations, and the efficient use of technological resources, made it possible to advance in the Historical Memory Program in the province of Ciego de Ávila during the year 2022.

The April 11 brigade of the Reasons for Life contingent, voluntarily made up of 23 doctors recently graduated from the Guantánamo University of Medical Sciences, was championed today in this city with the objective of consolidating primary health care in the central province of Ciego de Ávila for the next three years.

Until now, the number of liters of milk contracted from Ciego de Avila producers by the Dairy Products Company of Ciego de Ávila is 12.3 million, while the province's potential amounts to four million more. This difference between real and plan is what keeps a decisive sector in tension in the face of feeding the people.

Closing 2022 with an infant mortality rate of 6.2 per 1,000 live births, below the national average and better than last year, the indicator is moved towards a certain zone of "tranquility", although that is not precisely the term.

The need to accelerate the cutting of cane in the productive bases that pay taxes to the Ciro Redondo factory is an imperative with a view to increase the use of the potential norm of the modern industry, in addition to contribute to the process of the sugar harvest for being a faster and more efficient task.

Today, the Ministry of the Interior reported that the Coast Guard Service (SGC) returned 83 irregular migrants through the port of Orozco, in Bahía Honda, Artemisa.

The permanent work commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power reported on their operation in the IX Legislature of the Cuban Parliament, during the session of the Council of State headed by the President of this body, Esteban Lazo Hernández.

Those of us who witnessed the state of his right leg on April 23, 2022, when he was urgently removed from the José Ramón Cepero stadium to the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, thought it was goodbye to the active sport of Yorbis Borroto Jaureguí.

Today, the most prominent results of science, technology and innovation in Ciego de Ávila during the year 2022 were recognized in the provincial act for Cuban Science Day, which is celebrated every January 15.

Since its entry into force in October 2018, the delivery of idle land in usufruct through Decree Law 358 has benefited 5,453 people interested in producing food in Ciego de Ávila.

The province of Ciego de Ávila continues with the implementation of concrete and correct actions to protect vulnerable people and communities, even in the midst of the complexities that the Cuban economy is going through.