Meeting Yaniset Mariela Guerra Vargas, president of the Felton People’s Council, reinforces the Marti’s concept that “the word woman is as great as the word Homeland or Revolution”.
She, whom everyone calls Memé, has been for seven years one of the eight women who preside over these intermediate instances of popular government, out of the 19 in the complex and diverse municipality of Mayari, the largest in territory and second in number of inhabitants in the province of Holguin.
Intelligent, communicative and industrious is this educator, who with her example attracts, commits and agglutinates the inhabitants, organisms and organizations, to undertake the most dissimilar tasks and activities, as it has been appreciated these days with the sanitation of that demarcation. For this reason, in order to access by land to what used to be known as Cayo Cajimaya, in 1904 it was necessary to fill the area with rocky material, where the road and a railroad line were later built.
Responding to the call of this community leader, workers and equipment from the Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) and the Industrial Construction Company (ECI) number 3, together with the villagers, joined in the mowing, pruning and collection of solid waste.
But during her nine years as delegate and seven years as president of the Council, Yaniset has had to face many other challenges, as a result of the transformations that her town has undergone due to the logical passage of time. We can mention the former paralysis of the port. Which had two large traveling cranes for the loading and unloading of raw materials and other resources. The closing of the fertilizer mixer; the transformation of the metal construction workshop and the carpentry workshop, among other economic entities that gave life to the place and ensured jobs.
This representative of the local government recognizes the importance of having the Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE), where many men and women from both towns and other communities have been working since its creation.
Being born 48 years ago in such a picturesque place, where she grew up and became a very active pioneer, in the collective of the Amistad con los Pueblos elementary school, where she later worked, mark points in favor of the extensive knowledge of the place that Yaniset, daughter of two very dear people, such as Jorge Guerra and Magdalena Vargas, possesses.
She opted for a degree in general psychology, graduating in 2013 and after fulfilling several functions in the educational sector, for her results as delegate of Constituency 133 (Felton), she was elected as president of that Popular Council in 2018.
As her spiritual growth has always been accompanied by the necessary integral improvement, she also passed a basic course on accounting and finance techniques. Another one on preparation for defense at the Comandante Vitalio Acuña School, in Purnio, Holguin, and took a diploma course on cadre policy and reserves.
Actions of improvement to which he added in 2019 a master’s degree in the specialty of Management of educational institutions, which he passed at the University of Holguin.
How proud the men and women who saw Felton emerge and grow would be of this Cuban doer; a picturesque Mayarican territory, from where you can access by sea to Nicaro, Guatemala, Antilla, Isla de los Niños and that, despite the changes experienced by the passage of the years, maintains its natural and architectural attractions.
From 2018 to date, except for the painting of its multi-family buildings, Felton has been revived with the restoration of it’s social and economic infrastructure.
Nothing would have been possible without the cooperation of neighbors, institutions and organizations, recognizes the president of the Felton People’s Council, where she has many followers who admire and support her. Yaniset Mariela is grateful for the values inherited from her parents, which she transmitted to her family that fills her few moments of rest with happiness, peace and joy.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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