The road that leads to Monte Alto has improved remarkably; the arrangements made to the road facilitate the entrance to this Popular Council located about 21 kilometers from the town of Buenaventura, municipality of Calixto García.

For this and more, the housewife Yunixa Ochoa Almaguer is grateful: “To the Revolution, which is the one that ultimately does not forget the most humble people, the worker, the peasant. It is true that we have a complicated situation with the economy, which is joined by Covid and the North American bloc. Look, here too the drought has been hard, before milk and meat were produced in many quantities, they were delivered to the industry and now that has decreased.

“In any case, you have to keep fighting, work hard and solve problems. And notice that even so, knowing the state of the difficulties, even in the field, to buy food, I am here in the warehouse buying my potatoes, and they say that the meat truck that brings chicken is going around there, you don't realize it, they always keep us in mind, no matter how far away we are, there comes the work of the Revolution, even for the world ”.

And as Araís Turruella Cedeño told me, Monte Alto has geographical privileges, “because we border localities in the provinces of Granma and Las Tunas, hence we coordinate activities with neighborhoods and communities of Grito de Yara, Tranquera and Cupey, the latter of the Holguin municipality of Cacocum. Now we are limited due to the Covid pandemic, but here we carry out joint cultural actions with other organizations and actors in the neighborhood that favor the well-being of the neighbors, but always maintaining rigorous protection measures ”, explains this young woman, cultural promoter in this peasant region.

I say goodbye to Monte Alto, to the residents who proudly protect the Mala Noche site, where Antonio Maceo, and other men from the redemptive forest, camped in their prefecture, but this is a neighborhood of founding families such as the Valdés, from Justo Magín, of the teacher Alicia, and of the renowned poet Consuelo Valdés, La novia de Mala Noche.