Marlene Caboverde Caballero
Taken from the Mayabeque Newspaper
The news of this February 17 could be the meeting that reviewed the management of the actors involved in the local development of Mayabeque in the year 2022.
However, I think that the relevance of the fact lies in how pleasant it is to look back at the province and appreciate the changes generated within the municipalities thanks to the passion and talent of a group of men and women committed to rebuilding up their native land.
The report presented by the Director of Development of the Provincial Government, MSc. Adamaris Brito Ruiz, lists the most relevant advances in the territory and also the gray areas that must be dyed with new colors if we all come together in search of the same goal: founding a prosperous society that offers well-being and hope.
The member of the Central Committee and first Secretary of the PCC in Mayabeque, Yuniasky Crespo Baquero, reiterated the urgent call to unite the intelligence and effort of the workers of the private sector, of the Socialist State Enterprise and of course of the citizens, whose role is key, not only in the improvement of neighborhoods and communities, but also in the success of each venture created.
At the meeting I saw the familiar faces of people who started from scratch, with a lot of dreams in their heads and a little money in their pockets, but who today speak proudly of their own companies.
There was Ada Alina Vega, who without knowing anything at all about sewing created a workshop, with all of the law, in an old abandoned dining room that today bears the name of Textiles Madruga. She started as a Self-Employed Worker with only three workers, and today she is proud that her business has emerged as the first Local Development Project founded in Mayabeque in March 2022. Her group is made up of 13 seamstresses and last year her sales exceeded the 12 million pesos.
After her, others, such as Roberto Rojas, in Güines, set a pattern in the world of new economic actors who occupy decisive positions on the Mayabeque scene and beyond the local sphere.
There are already 136 MSMEs and 46 PDLs formed, the majority in the last year and despite the crossfire of the blockade, material limitations, still closed minds and stubborn bureaucratic stumbling blocks.
Behind those figures there are many stories, all of them beautiful. There are those who look with disgust at the flourishing of the private sector, “they are going to get rich,” they think. And that is not the idea that should prevail. The troubadour Silvio Rodríguez warns that in his verses: “Having is not a sign of evil / and not having is not proof / that it accompanies virtue.”
There are those who have amassed a fortune at the expense of speculation and resale and even diverting state assets. They have not generated jobs or produced food or healed the environment or restored splendor to a railway station or a social circle.
It is necessary to block the path of those, on the other hand, those who have talent and will must be summoned, as Governor Tamara Valido Benítez says, who traced the way forward with this image: “Mayabeque” is a jewel in the rough, which It is up to us to polish it with work, intentionality and dedication to show that it is possible to do better.
