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The Cuban farmer is a jovial and attentive person, which is why solitude is not his strong suit. He enjoys sharing ideas and staying informed about what's happening in the world, even if he lives in a remote neighborhood. He enjoys dominoes, the legends, and the traditions that have accompanied him throughout his life. That's why the Television Rooms are spaces for gathering and unity, fostering a higher quality of life in rural Cuba.
In the old Las Brisas neighborhood, now part of the town of Buenaventura*, the protagonist of "Today's Interview" was born to peasant parents who instilled in him the main values of society, including respect, love for one's neighbor, simplicity, honesty, and above all, hard work—principles that make him beloved in his hometown and that have helped him raise his lovely family. He is Adel Torres Carralero, whom I visited one of the cool mornings in February at his home on Enramada Street in the Centro Escolar neighborhood. He kindly agreed to an interview, arranged some time ago, as this native of Calixto García has dedicated 53 of his 74 years to the culinary arts, mostly as a bartender.
Alicia Mederos Matamoro is a third-grade teacher who came from Havana. Here, she found love and stayed. She speaks to me with a hoarse voice, a dysphonia that doesn't impede the frank dialogue in her classroom and in a hallway of the Buenaventura primary school's semi-boarding school. "I've been in this profession for over twenty-two years, and here I've found a good team. We have difficulties with fuel to generate electricity; the blackouts almost bring us to a standstill. The families of our students struggle a lot to care for their children. But what can we do? Well, the answer lies in better classes, in efficiently attending to those who are less advanced, both in learning and education—that is, in comprehensive development."
The 131st anniversary of the resumption of our independence struggles was commemorated today in Mala Noche, a historic site where, as every February 24th, the significance of epic events like the necessary war is evoked, as well as the continuity of an emancipatory and distinctly Cuban process.
With a minute of silence dedicated to the combatants who died during 2025, and to the 32 who valiantly gave their lives in defense of the sovereignty of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Annual Review Assembly of the work carried out by the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution of the Municipality of Calixto García in 2025 began.
