Work in agriculture and screening to detect arboviruses appear among the activities that can be enjoyed this year. summer Cuban university studentsas revealed this Wednesday on the Cuban Television propaganda program Round tablewhich for the second consecutive day was dedicated to recreational offers for the summer season on the Island.
The president of the ruling University Student Federation (FEU) at the national level, Ricardo Rodríguez Gonzálezsaid in this Wednesday’s broadcast that the organization he leads is “ready to support recreational and productive activities.”
“In 2023 we create the University Guerrillas March 13, as a form of special mobilization of university students, to respond to impact tasks that the country demands, as well as natural, technological and health disasters. For this summer we call on university students to join the guerrillas voluntarily, to contribute to production,” said the student leader, according to the official portal. Cubadebate.
He pointed out that during this summer “three forms of mobilization will be developed: impact on the productive poles (with the articulation of agricultural university camps throughout the country), and two specific tasks entrusted by the training ministries,” the state media quoted him as saying.
“The universities attached to the Ministry of Public Health will be part of the investigation and control of arboviruses, and will support the Maternal and Child Program,” he explained.
Among the sectors of society “benefited” by the activities that the FEU will develop in the summer are those Cubans who do not study or work, and for those who The regime has reinterpreted the crime of disobedience in the Penal Codewith the aim of imprisoning them.
But the FEU seeks them with “attractive proposals”, according to the president of the organization at the national level.
Rodríguez González explained that the universities attached to the Ministry of Higher Education will assume organizational tasks, will be linked to serving the canteens of the Family Care System (SAF) “and will carry out an uprising of young people disengaged from study and workto reach them with attractive proposals”.
The general director of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) stated, according to Cubadebtethat “this will be a sports summer.”
To support the statement, he referred to the 60th edition of the School Games which, for the first time, will have a mascot, said the manager about the news from the event inaugurated by Fidel Castro.
He also commented that the playoffs of the 63rd edition of the National Baseball Series from Cuba, an event that, in its qualifying stage, exhibited the low quality of the ball played today on the Island. During that phase of the tournament, the influx of public to the stadiums was scarce. It remains to be seen if it increases with the start of the playoffs, in which the best teams in the championship will compete for first place.
Regarding the gastronomic offers, the intervention of the director of Gastronomy of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Ervin Darío Hernández Escalona, showed that The Cuban State has nothing to offer and its solution is to reach agreements with the non-state sector.
In accordance with Cubadebatethe manager explained that, “in the face of the country’s complex economic scenario,” his sector has drawn up strategies so that the people can enjoy the summer as best as possible.
“The first thing we must achieve is to agree prices with non-state management actors, to guarantee a stable and attractive offer; as well as maximize production from processing centers in each territory, promote electronic commerce and bankingand start the summer with commercial and gastronomic fairs in each municipality of the country,” he explained.
The sector will also hold commercial and gastronomic fairs, and comprehensive activities for children. According to Hernández Escalona, it is also planned to allocate reservations for nightclubs in coordination with the Federation of High School Students and the FEU, enhance care for children’s homes without parental protection and “achieve a link with productive activities, among others.” “.
The director of Content and Programming of Cuban Television, Fe Maité Herryman Romero, announced premieres and thousands of hours of transmission, although he did not clarify how many Cubans, hit by blackouts, will be able to enjoy.
“We will have 17,000 hours of transmission and nearly 800 programs throughout the country, of which 138 are premieres (national, 98, and provincial, 40),” listed Herryman Romero.
“In the case of series and movies, there will be a great variety of nationalities, years of production, filmmakers,” he explained.
According to the official, the television schedule will include some 49 series slots, of which six are premieres. “About 70 series will be broadcast,” she added.
Television will dedicate 39 spaces to cinema, including nine for premieres, and 431 films will be broadcast, according to the directive. The Cubavisión channel brings 25 premieres “and extensive children’s programming“, celebrated the official.
Telerebelde will broadcast 24 hours during the Olympic Games and the Educational Channel will broadcast sports on July 27 and 28, August 3 and 4, and August 10 and 11.
Although the official’s words contain the promise of a lot of entertainment for Cuban viewersthe energy crisis that the country is going through may prevent that promise from becoming a reality.
This Thursday, just over 20 days after its most recent repair, the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, in Matanzas, was disconnected this morning from the National Electroenergetic System (SEN) due to a boiler breakdown.
