PLAYA, Havana.-This Saturday morning the three destinations marked on the tour agenda of the President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, had a common factor: dedication and follow-up, the mark left by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
The Las Canteras community, in the capital municipality of Playa, was the first point of a visit that is added to those carried out by the country’s leadership throughout the archipelago, municipality by municipality, which was attended by the member of the Bureau Politician and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Roberto Morales Ojeda, as well as with authorities of the Party and the Government of the territory of interest.
The year 1980 is taken as a reference for the moment of birth of the neighborhood, a space that is part of the set of communities that in recent times have experienced transformation processes. In its beginnings, as the mayor of Playa, Alexis González Inclán, explained to the Head of State, the community did not have an adequate infrastructure for services; and it was Fidel who indicated that a school be built there.
That decision was part of the country’s leadership’s interest in guaranteeing there, as in so many other places in Cuba, adequate access for the inhabitants to basic services and social development.
And this Saturday morning, consistent with such concern, Díaz-Canel received an explanation about what, in this sense, has been done or is pending, such as the homes that remain to be built, such as the 200 older adults who They are being attended to in different programs, or as the process of incorporating a group of young people – which has been gradual – into study and work activities.
The president was interested in the continuity of the transformation processes of the communities in the capital, in the pace of these restorative efforts. To her question, the Governor of Havana, Yanet Hernández Pérez, explained that this activity of change continues, and that what is being left behind is the infrastructure front due to the current deficit in construction materials.
After also asking if the ministries continue to support, as in the beginning, the transformations of specific territories, the dignitary expressed that this will for transformation should not be lost. In a natural environment marked by vegetation that adorns and favors, the Head of State highlighted the value of the population’s participation in each change that is made.
In an aside with reporters, Mayor Alexis González referred to steps of progress in Las Canteras, such as the birth of the Clinic; from the cellar; such as the improvement of roads, electrical and hydraulic infrastructure; improvement of public lighting; construction of a ball field and an outdoor gym for residents, among other benefits.
“I think that the neighborhood, in this last stage, has had a turnaround in the sense of the provision of services, and that in addition the facilities have been made with culture (of detail),” they have turned out quite well,” said the mayor. about the place sponsored by the Ministry of Tourism and where, he said, people’s opinions are positive.
The next destination point on the tour was the Arides Estévez Sánchez Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), founded in 1995 by Fidel. There Joel Barreto, president of that productive entity, told the president that along with the expansion of the areas of various crops, organic fertilizers are used to obtain better yields.
Among the new features of the place, a small factory that will make it possible to have solid and liquid feed was shown to visitors; and among other data of interest, it was learned that the productive entity covers 30 points of sale.
The National Center for Scientific Research (CNIC), founded in July 1965 – as an expression of the visionary thinking of the Commander in Chief about the importance of institutions like these for the country – was the third place in this Saturday’s visit. There, a dermatological soap plant – inaugurated in 2019 – was the setting seen by the Cuban President, as the place is an example of effective investment and evidence of how scientific rigor can have a positive impact on the quality of life of the people.
Regarding a product whose active component is ozonated sunflower oil, and which has already been exported to nations such as Venezuela, Angola or China, the president advocated continuing to improve the presentation; And in terms of everything done in the production plant, in terms of how its creators were finding financing and how long before success they took a warehouse as a starting point to set up the plant, Díaz-Canel Bermúdez expressed: “This is how there is “what to think.”
