This Sunday, an estimated 300,000 voters exercised their right to vote during the municipal elections in Ciego de Ávila.

At his 92 years old, walking stick in hand, Félix is ​​getting ready to vote. Photo: Osvaldo Gutiérrez Gómez.

The affability, simplicity and indestructible modesty say a lot about Félix Álvarez Aguilar, 92, a man who at an early age was forced to work as a cleaning assistant, construction worker, seller of saints and religious prayers, newspapers, collector of water receipts..., and who began his Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences at the age of 55 and finished it at 60, "after old age", thanks to an "immeasurable Revolution that gives opportunities to all".

As happens every five years, this November 27 the delegates to the municipal assemblies of Popular Power will be elected. The significance of this crucial moment is not reduced to the fact that those chosen will be the trustees of the voters in the scenario where they live and to whom the high responsibility of representing them will correspond, but, above all, that their problems, complaints and opinions are known, analyzed and reflected in state decision-making.

Marabana participants will also honor history in Ciego de Ávila

More than fifty athletes participating in the traditional Marabana marathon, including runners from the national athletics and skating team, together with the people of Ciego de Ávila, will participate on November 30 in the First sporting event Crossing the Trail from Júcaro to Morón. 

For his educational contributions to the preservation of heritage, the Spanish professor Antonio Ortega Ruiz was distinguished this Friday with the shield of the Máximo Gómez Báez University of Ciego de Ávila.

The Vice President of the Republic of Cuba, Salvador Valdés Mesa exchanged during the afternoon of this Friday with workers and managers of the Provincial General Teaching Hospital Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola of Ciego de Ávila.

·      Democracy in Fidel implied sharing the fate of the most humble people of the town

Fidel reached out to the peasant community. It was an old community on a reddish soil, where a cooperative with 80 houses was beginning to be built. Construction materials were stacked in a straight line, and to one side was a half-built warehouse.

·      It is the longest running event sponsored by the Hermanos Saíz Association in Ciego de Ávila

From November 25 to December 2, the Cultural Crusade Following the Trail returns, from Júcaro to Morón, to the cultural billboards of the province, a community-wide contest with a high sociopolitical impact, which takes art to the same places that they retraced the rebels and the Liberation Army during the independence wars.

There are many challenges and horizons to overcome in terms of cybersecurity for Cuba. In this, not only decision-makers have a fundamental role, but also citizens, businessmen and officials at any level.

The validity of the ideology of Fidel Castro Ruz constitutes not only an incentive, but also a firm conviction for these times, where the global crisis of Capitalism becomes more and more intensely systemic, while the third world countries continue to pay the worst consequences.

For Isabel Romero Pérez (La China), giving up the interview was never an option, nor was completely interrupting her work routines, at that time, aware of requests from clients located in the two bars of the Acuabar of the Hotel Colonial Cayo Coco, in the Jardines del Rey tourist destination.

Jorge Martínez Wilson, from the 81 kilograms division, eleven times medalist in national championships and the best judoka from Ciego de Ávila of all time, ensured his participation in the first qualifier in Panama City (November 26 and 27), with a view to to the next Central American and Caribbean Games to be held in San Salvador, El Salvador, from June 23 to July 8 of next year.

The Ananá sociocultural project of the José Sirio Inda Hernández House of Culture in Ciego de Ávila won the prizes in the children's and adolescent categories of the recently concluded Filming Fantasies Children's Audiovisual Festival of Santa Clara.

In these days when the municipality of Majagua is preparing for the elections of candidates for delegates of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power, the example of Nilda Bárbara Rodríguez Castillo cannot fail to be mentioned.

The increase in the perception of risk regarding natural phenomena associated with climate change favors understanding and support for the draft Decree Law on Coasts, currently subject to popular consultation in settlements located on the coasts north and south of the central region of the country.

This Tuesday, the second day of the International Heritage Diploma that is taught at the Máximo Gómez Báez University in Ciego de Ávila will be dedicated to the conservation and management of world heritage cities.

Because in the era of new information and communication technologies, the word connection immediately refers to events in cyberspace, the title might seem mocking, considering that the report focuses on an area with weak radio-electronic signals.

Cuba celebrates from today the National Cybersecurity Day that will last until next Friday with the aim of raising awareness and proposing concrete actions in the technological field.

III Regional Workshop on Integrated Community Work in Ciego de Ávila 

More than three decades have marked the existence of Ramona Dónate Jiménez as a delegate of the constituency number 15 of the community of San Antonio and for 10 years she has served as president of the Liborio popular council, in the municipality of Bolivia. Her words are moving as she reveals her devotion to the Homeland and Fidel, essential motivations to fulfill government tasks.

With the General Festival of Art Amateurs of the Máximo Gómez Báez University, Ciego de Ávila ended such an important event at the level of Higher Education centers in its twenty-sixth edition.

"Cultural heritage in troubled times. 50 years of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage" is the title of the international postgraduate course that, from November 21 to 25, is taught at the Máximo Gómez Báez University from Ciego de Ávila.

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Party in the province, and Governor Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, exchanged with electoral authorities about the preparations for the upcoming elections on the 27th. Photo: Grether

• This Sunday, the dynamic test verified in each polling station the assurance of the food, transportation and communication plans, as well as the preparation of the electoral authorities.

Photo: Sayli Sosa Barceló

• In Ciego de Ávila, almost 900 polling stations will open within a week during the democratic exercise

Since dawn this Sunday, the 899 schools set up in Ciego de Ávila for the elections on November 27 verify the methodology of the process, as well as the material conditions and the effectiveness of the communication systems, among other preparations.

The Ananá audiovisual creation group, from the Jose Sirio Inda Hernández House of Culture in Ciego de Ávila, is one of the four Cuban projects nominated for the "Chicuelo de Fantasies" statuette at the 8th International Children's Audiovisual Festival "Rodando Fantasies" which has place in Santa Clara, from November 16th to 20th.

The Ministry of Communications invites you to participate in the online survey to find out your criteria on the services provided by entities and companies in the sector. It can be accessed through the following link: https://mincom.datys.cu/participate/0vczSQo and will be public until November 30. 

The CPA Paquito González advances potato planting in the current campaign just started in the province

Rafael Santiesteban Pozo, president of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP by its Spanish initials) in the country stressed that the company works for advantage in the potential of the cooperative and peasant sector, greater diversification and improvement in the contracting system so that prices correspond to the actual cost of productions.

It is not finished painting the exteriors of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital when the public transport stop located one block later ─which also received the benefit of painting─ had several promotions “born” in its columns.

In 1949, when the increase in sales favored the development of advertising agencies, the makers of radio commercials became more creative. On the other side of the radio receiver, the listener imagined himself buying Colgate Palmolive products or imagined idols, fanciful stories and worlds designed to fill in some lacks in fiction.

The issue of political responsibility in the economy of the socialist business system captured the attention of the plenary debate of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila, at the end of the second quarter of this year.

The Group to combat corruption, crime, illegalities and social indiscipline in Ciego de Ávila updates its plan of both general and specific measures by organizations to the People's Power Government Coordinator who attends the Defense.

When the governor of the province arrived at the meeting and portrayed in words each of the cases to which an apartment was going to be delivered, everyone was perplexed with the sequence and security with which he did it, as if the script had been studied beforehand.

Carlos Luis Arencibia Fernández has a problem. He likes his job and right now, it is one that another person would hardly accept, because he is carrying the full weight of the energy crisis on his shoulders.

Ciego de Ávila Electric Power Company reports that this Sunday the deficit in generation availability had a maximum of 55 megawatts (MW) during peak hours.

Inhabitants of communities with future effects due to the rise in the average sea level, organizations linked to socioeconomic activities on the coasts, and academic and scientific institutions, participate in the popular consultation of the Coastal Decree Law Project in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The Vice Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Inés María Chapman Waugh, evaluated this Sunday in Ciego de Ávila the sustainability of the water supply in light of the complex energy situation in the country.

When commemorating the 29th anniversary of the founding of the Cayo Coco Colonial Hotel by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, since the initial installation of the tourist activity in Jardines del Rey, in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, the commitment to the development of the leisure industry in Cuba.

The Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in Ciego de Ávila evaluated the economic results of the business system in this territory at the end of the second quarter of this year.

The more than 650 tons (t) of agricultural products sent from Ciego de Ávila to the western provinces most affected by Hurricane Ian, express the solidarity and willingness to support the recovery efforts, currently concentrated in the territory of Pinar del Río.

With the realization of the 282 assemblies of voters foreseen in the schedule, the process of nominating candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assembly of People's Power concluded in the municipality of Morón.

The estimated deficit for this Friday, November 11, is 75 MW at peak demand hours, according to the management of the Electric Company in Ciego de Ávila.

A representation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency is currently visiting the Ceballos Agro-industrial Company, in Ciego de Ávila, with the aim of promoting the development of its activities with an orientation towards field work.

To guarantee the timely sale of school uniforms for the grades in which it is established, differentiated attention to the Vocational Pre-University Institute of Exact Sciences (IPVCE), the confrontation with crime, corruption and illegalities within the sector, as well as ensuring that no classroom is left without teachers on November 28, when the 2022-2023 school year begins, are among the priorities that education faces right now at the gates of the new teaching calendar in Ciego de Ávila.

Deputy Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rena Bitter, Assistant Secretary of the Department of State for Consular Affairs, and Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the United States Department of Homeland Security.

• In times of scarcity, when the boom in the arrival of chemical products is not in sight, a group from Azcuba strives to produce biological media, for the benefit of sugarcane production

As an investment valued at 12 million pesos, Alberto Moronta Enrique, director of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, describes the constructive actions that are being undertaken these days in the Obstetric Unit of this care center, part of a work strategy that has joined companies and organizations in the territory to have, in the long run, a better hospital.

When next Friday, Ciego de Ávila puts an end to the process of nominating candidates for delegates to the municipal assemblies of People's Power, which has taken place in each constituency according to the planned schedule, the province will prepare conditions for the municipal elections, which will have place, in its first round, on November 27.

The number of Self-Employed Workers (TCP) in the country rises to more than half a million people, most of them women, showing the priority that the State gives to private activity as one of the emerging and necessary sources of employment.

Victim of generalized sepsis, Luis Alberto Venegas Carmenate, one of the most outstanding figures of Culture in Ciego de Ávila, died this Tuesday.

The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, congratulated his Bolivian counterpart, Luis Arce, for his second year as head of the multinational country, with a population of more than eight million inhabitants.

With an emotional activity began this Tuesday in Ciego de Ávila the Day of tribute to Public Health workers, in the Health area of ​​the Belkis Sotomayor Polyclinic in Ciego de Ávila, recognized for its good performance in assistance work for its community.

More than 90 percent of compliance is found, in the Roberto Rivas Fraga Popular Council, in the nomination assemblies of candidates for delegates to the Municipal Assembly, a transcendental democratic process that constitutes the basis of the Cuban electoral system.

Last Monday night, the talent of the movement of amateur artists from Ciego de Ávila shone on stage, while the couple of Bettsy Núñez Sotolongo and Bárbaro Lien Vega made their best movements and crowned the emotions with the achievement of second place, at the national, in the University Festival "Bailando Casino", which began last September in all the houses of higher education in the country.

Before the end of the year, Ciego de Ávila could have three more generator sets that contribute to distributed generation, after a repair and maintenance process carried out by the companies that manage these sites and the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The railway terminal of the municipality of Morón, in Ciego de Ávila, will be restored from this month until next year, which will restore the beauty of this emblematic building of the territory and National Conservation Award in 2010.

The arrival of November predicts a perceptible change in temperatures with that mix of blizzard and light rain. For Cubans, these cold fronts mark the arrival of winter, for the people of Majagüa it is the beginning of a tradition. Those of us from this land to the southwest region of Ciego de Ávila raise our noses and say “Bandos celebration is already approaching”.

During the meeting to review these advances with the factory and agricultural collective, with entities that ensure the harvest in the territory, with union sections and the highest political and governmental authorities of Ciego de Ávila, it was learned that these works were going smoothly at 87 percent completion as of the middle of last week.

Once this teaching calendar concludes, the educational centers of Ciego de Ávila will receive a new injection of teachers, with a view to the coming school year, when 299 students graduate from the pedagogical schools ―in what will be the highest graduation of these schools since their inception. opening―, to put into practice, in front of the classroom, what has been learned throughout these years of training.

The Council of Ministers approved on October 24 the area called North Cays in Ciego de Ávila as an area with special regulations, of the type of economic development in the category of Territory of preferential tourist use, according to the prerogatives conferred by the Decree Law 331, Of the Zones with Special Regulations, in its article 11.

During the early hours of the morning, the extensive area of ​​low pressure located in the seas north of Puerto Rico continued to gain in organization and intensity and became a subtropical storm named Nicole.

The Council of Ministers approved as an area with special regulations, of the type of economic development in the category of Territory of Preferential Tourist Use, the area called Ciego de Ávila North Cays, in accordance with Decree Law 331 "Of the Zones with Regulations Specials”.

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.