Odalys Peña Alarcón

  • The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) celebrates its 65th anniversary on August 23. Women from Las Tunas give voice to the greatest challenges they face today within the organization.

Self-care is not selfishness; it is love for yourself.

At the first wave of smoke, she runs to find a towel to cover her hair. She has been standing in front of the charcoal for more than 15 minutes, and for some reason, it won't light. She finished the old notebook with the child's drawings and couldn't get it to light. The urgency creeps up on her like a slap in the face, and she curses, quietly, but she curses.

The decline of livestock farming in Jobabo is very difficult to recover from in the short term.

Livestock, milk, meat...? The daily average milk delivery in Jobabo at the end of May did not exceed 2,000 liters, which represents about a third of what was collected for that same month before 2020. We are talking about a drastic and progressive decline, very difficult to recover from in the short term.

Teté Puebla talks about Fidel's teachings.

Teté Puebla's life is inextricably linked to Fidel Castro. It's almost impossible to have a conversation with her that doesn't revolve around the Commander-in-Chief, her closeness to him as a member of Column 1, the fact that she was the first woman to reach the Sierra Maestra, and the many daily lessons the Leader of the Revolution gave her firsthand.

Metallurgical engineer Félix Manuel Cepeda Aguilera.

Since his adolescence, Félix Manuel Cepeda Aguilera longed to shake Fidel's hand. He remembers it very close to the 99th birthday of the Historic Leader of the Revolution, and in that context, I stir up Félix's memory and begin to retrace part of his career.