Mayabeque, Cuba__ Cuba's largest dyke, almost 52 kilometers long, built in the 1980s under the initiative of Fidel Castro Ruz, has just received a capital rehabilitation that was completed in record time, Radio Rebelde reports.

The executors of the work reduced the term of five years to only five months, with a high quality and efficiency.

By agreement of the national secretariat of the Cuban Workers Union (CTC) the five brigades of constructors received the Flag of Proeza Laboral.

The cultural political act was attended by the Commander of the Revolution, Ramiro Valdés Menéndez and Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, general secretary of the trade union.

The members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and their first secretaries in the provinces of Artemisa and Mayabeque, José Valeriano Fariña and Juan Miguel García Díaz respectively, were also present.

Inés María Chapman, president of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources and René Mesa Villafaña, Minister of Construction, decorated the outstanding groups and eleven outstanding workers in the work.

The South Basin Dam serves as a retaining wall to prevent the penetration of the sea and the salinization of groundwater and soils. It also guarantees 30 percent of the Cuban capital's consumption and covers the needs of agriculture in the provinces of Artemisa and Mayabeque.

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