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“I like to roll cigars,” frankly said Regina Diaz, a simple woman, originally from the country but with a proletariat formation without blazoning on her condition of Worker Heroine of the Republic of Cuba.
“She is efficient and a hard worker able to do a lot more than what she has for plan, she prefers to talk about her factory named Jesus Feliu Leyva number Two in Baguamo, Holguin where she lives. She has devoted four decades of her life to work there.
She was born on March 7, 1945 in Canamazo, Baguamo. She moved to Holguin when she was 17 years old and decided to take good advantages of the opportunities the Revolution was giving her to study, no matter neither the social status nor the race. She is a high school graduate. She had to start working for her economic support.
She started in a canned factory and she had the opportunity to register a course to learn to work in a tobacco factory in 1977 and when I graduated I started working in this factory until now.”
Since the very beginning I enjoyed rolling. It is a very delicate job that needs a great skill in the least possible time, but with quality and without affecting the product, so it is not rejected. By that time we were rolling Cazadores cigars and I was able to roll 1,200 in a day.
My boss saw my skills and I was transferred to another activity to strip, and a week after I was able to do 180 bunches more of the plan.
Her condition as active in emulation is in her veins with her great admiration to Che Guevara, the promoter of socialist emulation and the voluntary work, so she has always been among the most outstanding workers.
“One day, the secretary of the union, Aracelis Diaz proposed me as National Vanguard and I was surprised with the news.” Since then on she was National Vanguard of the Tobacco Union for 24 years, so she was awarded with the medals Lazaro Pena I, II and II grades and Jesus Menendez, then this year she was granted the honorable title of Worker Heroine.
“That was something unforgettable for me, she said, to receive that recognition and by Machado Ventura.”
Nevertheless, nothing had changed with the title of Worker Heroine, because, as she says, she is still the same worker as usual with a greater commitment with her co-workers and society.
This Distinguished Daughter form Holguin City receives everybody in the same way and also has time to do other activities in her neighborhood in the gross root organizations together with her husband Jose Angel Rojas who understands and helps her.
She is 69 and thinks she can keep on contributing with her job and has not valued the idea to retire and want to continue working in her beloved factory, while she is healthy and has these skills.
