Cargando...January is always a hectic month for planning the new calendar. In this, the 66th year of the Revolution, Cuba’s two youngest provinces are celebrating their 15th anniversary, which will be celebrated in 2026.
And what happens even in the most modest house in the year of 15? It is an almost unique stage turned into illusions, but here we live it with the traces of a hurricane that left us almost without a movie theater, without stadiums, without a fence around the Mausoleum of the Martyrs, without street lighting in several arteries, without fruit trees, without a banana tree, and with more than 21 thousand families affected…
There are many places that need to change their disheveled face. And I’ll start with one of the most overlooked: the Boulevard. Only three blocks with one of the most beautiful projects in Cuba, which does not perpetuate itself in time, despite the coming and going of its people.
More than 4 million pesos have been poured into what are now closed doors, although so many pages and meetings have been dedicated to its gastronomy, to the involvement of state and non-state actors, to cultural life almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
What is left of the boulevard we dreamed of? Broken or missing light fixtures, flower pots with the traces of the plants that once were there, uneven benches with mold even in their insides, a fountain with Cubanichthys in the park misnamed after the Hermanos Saíz Association, closed public bathrooms, a faucet that always drips, and many, many missing paving stones.
It has had more sorrows than glories! And it is necessary to have the permanent aroma of Cubita coffee, the Casa del Chocolate or the taste of Coppelia ice cream!
On the boulevard, dusk is the first to fall and dawn is the last to rise. On Saturdays and Sundays, solitude reigns and, with a few exceptions, service becomes taboo, even for those who have to please, with pleasure, as the motto of the retail trade goes.
The 15 of Artemisa should be lived this year, yes, but among the almost 460 thousand Artemiseños, because although there is no piggy bank to celebrate, there is so much to pamper, to love and to do, in the little piece of the archipelago where we breathe.
We will always return to the boulevard, as will the visitors from the 11 municipalities, the young people in love, the workers on their way home.
So? There will be many, such as Cultura, Cimex, Etecsa, PNR, Rumbos, Comercio, the Cuban Fund for Cultural Goods, Tiendas Caribe, the Electric Company, Comunales, self-employed workers, the CDR, FMC, who will have to look to the boulevard, starting this January, to dance in the 15 of Artemisa.
Acerca del autor
Desde 2005 el periodismo me abre las puertas en Radio Artemisa, con la posibilidad de reorientar mi carrera al cursar estudios en el Instituto Internacional de Periodismo José Martí. Soy licenciada en Educación, en la especialidad de Defectología, y ya había cumplido varias tareas, incluso en la Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas.
Los resultados en el medio radial me condujeron a que, en 2011, al crearse la provincia de Artemisa, ocupara la responsabilidad de Corresponsal Jefa de la Agencia de Información Nacional, nombrada poco después Agencia Cubana de Noticias.
En ese mismo tiempo, alternaba como parte del ejecutivo de la Unión de Periodistas de Cuba, en el territorio, y posteriormente me desempeñé como su Presidenta; hasta que, en agosto de 2014 la dirección del Partido me designó directora del su Órgano Oficial, el periódico El Artemiseño, labor que continúo desempeñando.
Las funciones de dirección siguen aportando a la pasión por el periodismo, de ahí que mantenga publicaciones del acontecer de mi provincia en mi órgano de prensa Artemiseño, y en medios nacionales de comunicación, con mayor estabilidad, y representando tanto de compromiso como de orgullo, en el periódico Trabajadores.
