The Venezuelan singer-songwriter Zalixmary de las Mercedes García Reyes won the Grand Prize and the Interpretation Prize of the recently concluded thirty-ninth edition of the Daniel Cruz Cosa Musical Creator Festival, in the municipality of Venezuela.

Just as they will do on the 25th, when the Family Code referendum takes place, this Sunday, around 900 polling stations in Ciego de Ávila opened their doors very early to carry out the dynamic test that verified the logistical assurances and the preparation of the human resources that will intervene in the process, in order to guarantee the quality and transparency of the democratic exercise.

As voters, collaborators and observers of the popular referendum on the Family Code, some 3,500 young people from Ciego de Ávila will begin their electoral life during the democratic process that will take place next Sunday, September 25, in 895 schools in this province.

Cutting the trees that surrounded the Carmen cinema, in the main city, has raised more than one contrary opinion about the relevance of cutting instead of pruning, but the truth is that after the felling an ornament has arrived for the city that helps to understand why. It is a mural that extends for several meters on the sidewall of this institution and brightens up the environment with its colors.

Around 3,000 young people in Ciego de Ávila will exercise, for the first time, their right to vote during the popular referendum on the Family Code, which will take place next Sunday, September 25.

There would be no connection between the effort to hit the pedals and approve a code that regulates the way families are formed and related, if it were not, precisely, for the effort. It has not been easy to get to the point in which the only thing left to the rule is popular support.

At 6:00 a.m. this Saturday, the central region of Tropical Storm Fiona was estimated at 16.4 degrees North latitude and 65.3 degrees West longitude, a position that places it about 250 kilometers south-southeast of the Virgin Islands and about 345 kilometers southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The willingness of facilities in the tourism sector to join the global efforts aimed at protecting the Ozone Layer was recognized by the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in Ciego de Ávila.

This Friday, September 16, in order to keep its readers informed, Cubadebate shares the exchange rates for different foreign currencies in force in the country's foreign exchange market.

On September 25, the new Family Code will be submitted to a popular referendum in Cuba, a step that will decide on the entry into force of this important legislation. To discuss the values ​​defended by the Law and report on the organization of the referendum, the Minister of Justice, members of the drafting commission and the president of the National Electoral Council (CEN) appeared at the Round Table on Thursday.

Tropical depression seven continued to gain in organization and intensity over the central Atlantic during the last few hours, becoming Tropical Storm Fiona. The maximum sustained winds reached up to 85 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and its central pressure dropped to 1002 hectoPascal.

This Thursday, with an extensive program of activities, the parliamentary visit to Las Tunas of eight permanent work commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power began.

Demographic dynamics is transversal to all programs aimed at the progress of the nation; therefore, it must be evaluated at different levels and considered when outlining territorial development strategies, Doctor of Science Iliana Benítez Jiménez, researcher at the Center for Demographic Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Havana, said in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

Experts from the Center for Demographic Studies of the University of Havana (CEDEM) called for a greater integration of specialists and researchers in Ciego de Ávila for the implementation of the Cuban policy of attention to demographic dynamics.

Knowledge —both on the part of medical personnel and the population— marks, on many occasions, the difference between life and death of a patient. Right in knowledge we can find the answer to a question that guided the analyzes of a new meeting of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, with experts and scientists for health issues.

This Tuesday, educational centers, families and outstanding CDR members from Ciego de Ávila received the Neighborhood Prize and the September 28 distinction, indistinctly, granted by the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), from their national coordinator, Gerardo Hernández Nordelo.

The start, probably, would have happened under the curtain a few days ago if it were not for Santa Masiel and Motivos Personales, who have made social networks on the Internet, a constant tool for promotion and to "drag" the public wherever they go.

"We are now in a position to carry out the popular referendum on the Family Code," the president of the National Electoral Council (CEN), Alina Balseiro Gutiérrez said at this month's meeting of the country's leadership with the governors of the 15 provinces and the mayor of Isla de la Juventud.

The proximity of the reopening and the 29th anniversary of its foundation as the initiator of tourist operations in the Jardines del Rey destination, in the north of the province of Ciego de Ávila, constitute essential motivations to renew the image of the Colonial Cayo Coco Hotel.

The young Alexis Soto Torí, graduated in 2021 from the Máximo Gómez Báez University, with a Gold Degree in Law, joined the Ciego de Ávila Legal Services Company to complete his job training period, whose professionals have been integrated into the processes inherent to the renewal of the Family Code.

Two greats player greet each other after so many years: Lázaro Santana and Miguel Cuevas

Imagine, dear reader, if through the amplification of the stadium you hear that Luis Ulacia, Sergio Quesada, Reinaldo Fernández, among others, appear in the visiting team's lineup, and in the local squad's Lisdey Díaz, Yorelvis Charles, Yoelvis Fiss... and that Lázaro Santana will be in charge of uploading the box.

This Sunday, exceptionally and by agreement of the political and governmental authorities of the territory, a dynamic test took place in Ciego de Ávila to evaluate the proper development of the systems that will guarantee the holding of the referendum on the Family Code, to be held next September 25, as well as the existing conditions in the nearly 900 polling stations that will open their doors that day throughout the geography of Ciego de Ávila.

Morbidity due to dengue and COVID-19 in the province continues to add patients to the statistics and, although we cannot speak of a worsening of the epidemiological situation, neither of improvements; Rather, we have experienced a plateau in the last two weeks and the constancy is as worrying as a possible worsening, since it normalizes the symptoms and lowers the perception of risk.

The Program to Confront Non-Compliance and Tax Evasion, which has been running since last June, determined a debt of 1,577 million pesos, of which 500 have been collected, the National Tax Administration Office (ONAT) indicates.

Wilfredo Rodríguez Rodríguez is convinced that the pillar of the results of the Territorial Division of ETECSA in Ciego de Ávila, which he directs, go beyond numbers and the installation of new services.

The specialists of the Young Computer and Electronics Club in Ciego de Ávila celebrate the 35th anniversary of their creation, at the idea of ​​the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, with the recognition of those who remain uninterrupted for five, 10, 15 and 20 years in those facilities

Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Cuba Communist Party in Ciego de Ávila, today expressed the conviction that the inhabitants of this province will turn the popular referendum on the Family Code into another victory for the Revolution.

In the fight against dengue, Cuba is focusing efforts on advancing vaccine candidates that induce the cellular immune response against the four seropositives of the virus, a strategy that Eduardo Martínez Díaz, president of the Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Industries Group, checked on Wednesday at the CIGB of Cuba (BioCubaFarma).

With the farewell of Isela Nelson Charles and Néstor Renato Labrada, the twenty-second anniversary of Ciego de Ávila Television was celebrated this Tuesday, a telecentre that, from the most identity essences, is the image and mirror of the Ciego de Ávila heartbeat.

The Council of State, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic and Law No. 127 "Electoral Law", of July 13, 2019, agreed to call the voters of the Republic to municipal elections.

The workers of the Raw Materials Recovery Company (ERMP) in Ciego de Ávila, denounced the impact of the US blockade against Cuba in the management of their entity, where it hinders the actions of purchase, transfer, processing and sales directed to the national markets and overall.

The National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) reaffirmed the value of social communication as an essential tool to work with the people in confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, economic tensions, and difficulties in the electricity system.

With greater opportunities as economic actors in the province of Ciego de Ávila, the right to decent employment is recognized and guaranteed, in correspondence with the constitutional postulates based on the choice, qualification, aptitude and demands of the economy and society.

Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, and Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Cuba Communist Party, verified today the assurances to continue the 2021-2022 school period in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

The province of Ciego de Ávila's plan for the cold sowing campaign (September to February) amounts to more than 20,000 hectares (ha), a goal that the agricultural sector must assume in the midst of a scenario of complexity aggravated by the national and international economic situation, which will severely limit access to essential inputs and resources.

In order to keep its readers informed, Cubadebate shares the exchange rates for this Monday, August 29, in the country's foreign exchange market.

Yesterday, the service was affected due to a deficit in generation capacity 24 hours a day. The maximum affectation was 1,035 MW at 8:10 p.m., during peak hours the affectation was 972 MW.

Law 149 on the Protection of Personal Data, approved by the National Assembly of People's Power on May 14, has just been published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba in its Ordinary Edition No.90.

Exactly within a month, on September 25, Cuba will experience a historic day. To affirm it is not grandiloquence or mere enthusiasm. The new Family Code, which that Sunday will be submitted for popular approval by referendum, is a fundamentally revolutionary document; and its application could have a profound impact on the nation that we are, and on the destinies of many, many people.

"It was hard but we are going to get ahead," this Thursday, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, said at the foot of what was left of tank 51 - known by the population like two because it was the second to explode after the fire —, during a tour of the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where the hustle and bustle is constant to erase the traces of a fire of very large proportions.

This Friday, August 26, the forecasts of the Electric Power Company in Ciego de Ávila indicate a deficit of more than 50 megawatts (MW) in the availability of generation, a level similar to that suffered on Thursday 25, when it reached 51 MW.

Despite resource limitations, Ciego de Ávila guarantees repairs to industry, machinery, and transportation at the Ciro Redondo, Ecuador, and Primero de Enero plants, the three Ciego de Ávila giants that will contribute to the upcoming 2022-2023 contest.

It seems that immunizing against COVID-19 at this point is "old news"; however, it has been the booster doses with Abdala and Soberana that have made the difference in confronting the virus, especially when the omicron variant threatened to spread the contagion.

This Wednesday, the emblematic Miguel Ángel Luna Trova House, completely renovated inside and without losing any of its heritage architectural attributes, was reopened in Ciego de Ávila.

For Dairon César Fundora Pérez, belonging to the University Student Federation (FEU) is a privilege. He says it while listing a part of the history of the organization that he no longer looks at from afar, but from within.

Organization, discipline and normality prevailed on the first day of foreign currency sales to natural persons at the Exchanges Offices to which Granma had access in the province of Ciego de Ávila.

This August 23, the sale of foreign currency to natural persons begins, with a limit of 100 dollars ─or its equivalent in another currency─ and depending on what is purchased, they reported in a special appearance in the space of the Round Table Alejandro Gil Fernández , Minister of Economy, and Marta Sabina Wilson González, Minister President of the National Bank of Cuba.

We celebrate two fruitful anniversaries this August 22: the centenary of Cuban Radio and the 61 years of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Both fill us with joy and pride. We owe both institutions respect and admiration.

The Cuban National Health System maintains a group of actions aimed at preventing and dealing with the risk of spreading monkey pox. In this regard, Dr. Carilda Peña, Deputy Minister of Public Health of Cuba, recently explained that the flowchart for patient care with suspected disease has already been defined.

Given the complex energy situation in the country, Ciego de Ávila protects most of its water pumping stations for both the population and agriculture with Emergency Generators.

The participatory vocation of Cuban writers and artists is expressed today in their contributions to community transformations that cannot be postponed, to the leap in quality that is expected in the institutional system of culture and the media, and to confront attempts at recolonization that seek to fracture the model of society that the vast majority of Cubans have freely decided to build.

The execution of some 70 objects of works, in charge of various economic actors, enables improvements in the infrastructure of the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital (ALI), in the province of Ciego de Ávila, to offer superior care to patients.

It is dawning. Before the first strain of coffee of the day is put on the fire, a home approaches the outside world through the ether. At the wrong time, the dial indicates that the driver's pact with the loneliness of the road has ended. While watching the frying pan, someone tunes in a station waiting for his favorite soap opera. While on the other side of the door the wind whistles, people gathered around the radio, the trajectory of a cyclone is reported. With the hope fixed on the scope of this means of communication, a new musician awaits his debut.

There are those who say that the face of the people of Majagua is the reflection of the river: joy if it runs like a torrent, and sadness if it shows its spine and does not show the necessary strength to jump the concrete dam that dams its waters, as has happened in repeatedly.

Like the rest of the country, Ciego de Ávila shares the national mourning for those who disappeared during the catastrophe at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, in frank and supportive tribute to the heroism of those who lost their lives in the honorable line of duty.

No one knows how pain is spelled. No one knows if, in truth, words can reflect pain when it is so deep and ingrained in the soul of the living, of noble and good people. Silence is the way to feel it, to let it hurt; deep silence, like pain itself.

Ciego de Ávila strengthens its educational actions among Men who have sex with other Men for the effective prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS.

The authorization of 11 special polling stations for the referendum process of the Family Code in the province of Ciego de Ávila will ensure the right to vote for voters who are distant from their areas of residence for work, educational and personal reasons.

The past  August 1^st., when Lourdes La Rosa left the branch of the Bank of Credit and Commerce (Bandec) in Ciego de Ávila, located at the intersection of Independencia and Maceo streets, in the provincial capital, at the stroke of noon, she knew that she had just been in the right place and time, after carrying in his wallet the cash that, at the last minute, he decided to take out.

The names of the 14 people, who disappeared after the explosion of the second tank at the Matanzas Super Tanker Base, in the early hours of August 6, were released this Thursday.

The task of the Juan Antonio Márquez de Ciego de Ávila Company of Brushes and Plastic Items (Cepil) at the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial Hospital was to repair walls and paint the Neonatology Room, but the sponsorship went further and ended in innovation that will recover the much-needed nurseries where newborn babies sleep.

The final version of the new Family Code, which this September 25 will be submitted to a popular referendum, is published in the Official Gazette of the Republic No. 87, Ordinary.

Doctor of Science Jorge González Pérez, president of the Cuban Society of Legal Medicine, reported at a press conference on the search and identification process of the missing persons in the large-scale fire at the Matanzas supertanker base, last August 5.

The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, decreed an Official Duel from 6:00 a.m. on August 18 until 12:00 p.m. on August 19, 2022, as a fair tribute to the fallen in the line of duty, at the Supertanker Base in the province of Matanzas.

The Electric Company of Ciego de Ávila estimates a deficit of 60 megawatts (MW) in the province today. The entity's strategy, to equate the circuits in time of affectation, will be to turn off in the order of those least affected yesterday and, if the deficit decreases, first restore those that accumulate the most hours of affectation.

The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) in Ciego de Ávila is committed to bringing culture to communities in vulnerable situations in the territory to fulfill the maxim that summer 2022 is really for everyone.

Before the firing squad, with sore and bloody feet, but immensely patriotic, Perucho stood before history and, along with his own words of war, permeated the most intimate fibers of the Cuban nation when he exclaimed, minutes before his last breath, that "to die for the country is to live".

As part of the actions to implement the purchase operations of foreign currencies currently accepted in the country, transfers from MLC accounts supported on magnetic cards, issued by the Credit and Commerce Bank, have been enabled through the different electronic payment channels, Metropolitan Bank and Save Popular Bank, applying the new exchange rate when their destination is to accounts in CUP.

The foreign exchange market is the space where currencies are bought and sold, which allows connecting the national currency and foreign currencies. The price by which currencies are acquired is what is known as the exchange rate. The main purpose of the exchange rate policy is to influence this price and its stabilization based on the objectives of economic development.

Cuba celebrates this Tuesday the 97th anniversary of the founding of its first Communist Party, born to defend the interests of the working class and popular sectors. The organization was established on August 16, 1925 and is considered the successor to the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC), created by José Martí, and the antecedent of the current Communist Party of Cuba.

Arlen Regueiro Mas has died and sadness overwhelms us. The illustrious writer, the vehement promoter, the tireless reader, the irreverent, the conscientious, the passionate bookseller... have died, and words are not enough to accurately recount his life.

Twenty years after the creation of the system of territorial editions in the country, Ávila Editions recognized this weekend founding workers, as well as prominent cadres and groups of the Provincial Book and Literature Center of Ciego de Ávila.

The maintenance actions in 40 family doctor's offices (CMF) during the current year confirm the existing will in the municipality of Morón, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, to continue improving Primary Health Care services (APS).

Cuba reported this Monday new measures that substantially modify the role of foreign investment in domestic trade, in order to immediately increase the supply of goods to the population.

Before August 15, all the electoral authorities in Ciego de Ávila will take office, as part of the enlistment of the National Electoral Council and its structures at the grassroots level, in view of the referendum on the project of the Family Code, with an agreed date for the 25 next September.

Why we fight is the name of the day that the young creators star in for Fidel's 96th birthday and the 65th anniversary of the death of the Saíz brothers.

Tomás Alexis Martín Venegas, Governor of the province of Ciego de Ávila, received His Excellency Mr. Eliseu Joaquín Machava, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mozambique in Cuba, who will be visiting the territory from this Tuesday until August 18.

On September 25, the referendum on the Family Code will take place throughout the national territory. From 7:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the afternoon the people will be able to express their opinion through a free, direct and secret vote.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, praised the solidarity and goodwill of Venezuela and Mexico towards the island, for their prompt response to the fire that hit the industrial zone of the western province of Matanzas.

There is no mystery. No one is going to ask me, but I am going ahead to reveal my vote for next September 25. I will get up early, even if it's Sunday, and I'll walk to the polling station which, luckily, is around the corner from my house. It will take me less than a minute to check the Yes box. I will return with the irrevocable feeling that I have done the right thing.

The deficit in the availability of generation for this Monday will be 50 megawatts (MW), according to estimates by the Electrical Power Company from Ciego de Ávila.

These tremendous days for all of Cuba, he has not ceased to be a presence. I have the impression that those who have invoked deities or an almighty God have included him in their prayers, convinced that he listens and that, as we have always been used to, he does not fail.

Deficits of more than 1,500 megawatts (MW) have put greater stress on the difficult electricity production scenario that the country has been going through for months.

The repercussions in the territory of Ciego de Ávila were immediate on Monday the 8th of the current month when a maximum of 74 MW were turned off for more than nine hours (hrs.), a figure that represented almost two thirds of the demand during the night peak hours.

Social works with an impact on improving the quality of life in the municipality of Morón, including family doctor's offices (CMF) in vulnerable communities, were inaugurated in salute to the 96th birthday of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Yesterday, the Ciego de Ávila Electric Company informs Invasor that the deficit in generation availability was aggravated by the exit of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) and unit 6 of the Antonio Maceo CTE, which caused a deficit for the province of 64 MW (megawatts), which forced to affect every three and a half hours; situation that will continue during today.

Like so many other great stories, one day we will have to calmly tell about these last five days that have shaken Cuba from the pain of fire –literally and from the soul–, and also from a will that surpasses itself.

At this time of the morning, the three trucks that left last night from the city of Ciego de Ávila must already be distributing the almost 40 tons of agricultural products in Matanzas hospitals.

The work to extinguish the fire does not stop in Matanzas. Cuban forces have been working to confront the incident since Friday as the situation remains complex.

The third tank also collapsed, after the fuel spilled from the second and further compromised the situation in the early morning hours, the Cuban Presidency reported on Twitter.

The recovery of the economic indicators in Ciego de Ávila is going to be slower than the unsatisfied demands of the citizens. After a start to the year too similar to the end of 2021, the end of the first semester has; however, lights and shadows.

The workers of the Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, expressed their solidarity and willingness to attend to those injured by the large-scale incident that occurred in the industrial zone of the territory of Matanzas.

Yesterday, Friday, The Electric Power Company of Ciego de Ávila informs Invasor that the deficit in the availability of generation was maintained 24 hours a day, turning off the circuits outside the schedule, since the deficit had a maximum of 60 MW (megawatts), reaching in the afternoon and evening hours to rotate circuits every three hours.

Several works for the benefit and enjoyment of the Morón citizens are planned from now on in the city with an eye on this August 13, which marks the 96th anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro Ruz.

Until the end of statistical week 31, Ciego de Ávila had reported 508 patients with symptoms suggestive of dengue and a reactivity (positive to the IgM test) close to 50 percent. They are provincial data; municipalities within the indicators become even more complex.

Yesterday, the service was affected by a 24-hour capacity deficit. The maximum effect at night was 840 MW at 8:30 p.m., coinciding with peak hours. The service remained affected throughout the early hours of today.

Since last July 21, the operation of the foreign exchange market is , an unknown shared by many and that was cleared up this Wednesday at the Round Table with the announcements of the Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil Fernández.

The Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil Fernández and the Minister President of the Central Bank of Cuba Marta Sabina Wilson González will appear this Wednesday at La Mesa Redonda to provide information on the implementation of the exchange market, a measure announced in the recent session of the National Assembly of People's Power.

Yesterday, the service was affected due to capacity deficit 24 hours a day. The maximum effect at night was 812 MW at 9:30 p.m., coinciding with peak hours. The service remained affected throughout the early hours of today.

There are at least two certainties that, at the height of week 29 of the year 2022, Domingo Molina Hernández, head of the Arbovirus Program in Ciego de Ávila, ponders: no deaths from dengue or patients in serious or critical stages have been reported; however, when you delve into the statistics, the happiness lasts a "blow of an eyelash", because in the last 15 days the reactivity grew by nine percentage points, compared to the previous fortnight, reaching 45.4 percent.

Approximately more than 30 million pesos was the investment in five work objects that were inaugurated in the Doctor Antonio Luaces Iraola Provincial General Teaching Hospital in the main city of Ciego de Ávila.