A party for children marked the end of the summer in Radio Florida station

A big party for the children from Florida took place last Saturday in Radio Florida when the program “Rf en el dial” from this station convoked the kids from this territory to finish a section this program broadcasted for them on July and August and where they showed all their knowledges about music and other interesting topics.

Guided by Maribel Nogueira Urrelys, presenter of this program, the children who assisted to this station on July and August sang songs of recognized Cuban singers and recited poems written by Jose Marti, Nicolas Guillen and other important poets.

As part of the will of the producers and artists from this media in order to take the programming towards the community and to exchange with the audience, this activity was also a propitious moment to recognized the labour developed by some people and institutions in the cultural enrichment and formation of the new generations.

In this way, Radio Florida was also part of the activities celebrated in this municiplaity for the end of the summer 2010 with a party in which predominated the songs, dance and the children smiles.

Vilma is in the combat dressed in guerrilla

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

Many people said that April is the flowers month and precisely in this month was born one of the most authentic women of the Cuban history, who always was full of tenderness, affection and will.

Vilma Espin Guillot was born on April 7th, 1930 and from that date on her star shone so much like the stars from her Santiago; when she was a child she sang in the choirs from her school and when she was a young woman she participated in the different student protests that took place in the Santiago university, where Vilma consolidated her political and revolutionary maturity.

She went to the Sierra Maestra in the middle of those struggle times taking messages, fighting as any man and she fell in love of Raul Castro, to whom Vilma always had an smile in spite of that the time was not enough to attend the house, the family and the children.

She was the Vilma of all the Cuban women, who fought in the parliament, who participated in all the congresses and events where she work to unite wills and to look for the respect and the tolerance for whom were and are different people.

We dismiss Vilma of the life some time ago, but nowadays she continues in the combat, dressed in guerrilla because not even the death, the caprices and not even the time can extinguished the tremendous shine of this star that her tenderness was.

The municipal radio festival left good experiences

By Reinier Barrios Mesa

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The municipal radio festival that recently ended in Florida was an opportunity of meeting between the people who make radio and its listeners; a moment to improve the work, precisely in this year when this station arrives to its 40 anniversary.

During three days, the workers from Radio Florida station developed debates about the role of the consultancy in the radio as a guarantee to obtain a higher efficiency in the programming; the importance to apply the results of the researches made about the audience levels and other important topics.

The participation of a significant number of programs proved the will of the artist from this station to participate in events like this. The works presented by the journalists in this festival showed the spirit of them to fulfil the mission to reflect the reality using the criticism and the opinion.

For next editions to the municipal radio festival in Florida is necessary to think on the possibility to extend this event beyond the station in order to the audience may participate in the different activities.

Now, when the municipal radio festival in Florida is history, the people who work in its station have the commitment to put into practice all what we learned during this important event with the love we feel for an art that is sound, love and life.

Professors from Florida get ready for the event “University 2010”

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The experiences acquired during the six years that the university education is applied in Florida will be tackled in each educational centers from this teaching when next march will be celebrated the event “University 2010”.

During these days in these centers are received the papers, researches and other pedagogical experiences that show the results of this process of a deep social transformation.

Topics such as the university extension, the use of the new technologies in favour to the teaching and the impact that these institutions provoke in the community are among the proposals will be presented.

“University 2010” is the most important event from the university education in the country, for this reason in Florida the professors from this teaching are getting ready to assure the quality of this event in this municipality, where this idea of Fidel Castro already shows significant results.

Among the works presented by the journalists from Radio News programs participate in the municipal radio festival in Florida

By Reinier Barrios Mesa

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

A significant representation of the journalist work from last year participates in the municipal radio festival; event that began this February 24th in Florida and that will finish next Friday 26th.

Florida are the testimony of Pedro Pablo Zaez Herrera about Gladys Ramirez, the mother of Rene Molina, a young man who died when the Cuban mission in Angola.

Among the proposals are also the information made by the experimented journalist Humberto Guevara that is about the birth of a lion in the municipal zoo; the advances obtained in a rural community from Florida after the Revolution triumph written by Francisco Sierra, while the chronic “Homage to Frank” and “Interview to Miriam” made by Yailen Diaz and Reinier Barrios, represent the young generation of journalists.

As a news programs also participate in this new edition of the radio festival in Florida the newsreel “ Acontecer” and an informative program that reflects the recovery labour after the passing of the hurricanes, while the program of social facilitation offers a critic analysis about the situation of the transportation in the territory.

The art instructor day: Homage to these dream makers

By Reinier Barrios Mesa

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

“Culture is shield and sword of the nation”: These words pronounced by Fidel Castro and that the Cuban people made yours 50 years ago, made possible that now we have the art as an essential component in the formation of the new generations and as a cuirasses to face the constant attacks of our enemies that wish to destroy the social project we build.

Culture also made possible the creation of the art instructors’ movement, an army integrated by young people

That in the first years of the Revolution climbed the mountains or went to the Zapata swamp or to the plains from Camagüey to teach the different artistic expressions.

The ideas battle gave new spirits to this Fidel’s idea and the schools located in each province formed and today continuing teaching an army of young people that integrate the brigade Jose Marti when they graduate.

From the schools, the old people home, the rural communities and other places, these art instructors build the dream of the new artists, impulse the art and receive grateful smiles because of their creator work.

The Cuban people congratulate the art instructors in their day because they know they were and are main characters of important moments in this present of victories and the best gift is the affection of the children, who consider them as real dream makers.

The pedagogical detachment “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” was created in Florida

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

With a deserve homage to Jose Marti, one of the highest teachers from Cuba, was created in Florida the detachment “Manuel Ascunce Domenech”, that now is integrated by the young people that study the first year of different pedagogical specialities.

The ceremony was celebrated in the secondary school “Lopez Recio Loynaz” where assisted leaders from the University students’ federation and principals from the municipal educational sector, who share with the young people the songs and poems that remembered the life and work of Jose Marti.

Johana Fundora Leyva, spoke in the name of all the members of this detachment and she explained the commitment that means for their lives the fact to assume the task of educate the new generations as well as she exhorted their mates to keep the discipline and the responsibility with the study and other missions assigned by the organization.

The more than 60 young people that began their studies in the pedagogical university from Florida and that now integrate the detachment “Manuel Ascunce Domenech” are already developing their practices in the different educational centers from the territory, where they work with the help of tutors to look for new strategies that make possible to assume the class as better as possible.

A new group of solidarity with the 5 Cuban heroes was created in Florida

By Reinier Barrios Mesa

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The solidarity and the dedication of the inhabitants from Florida with the 5 Cuban antiterrorist fighters that are imprisoned in United States jails have a new space with the creation of a solidarity group with the 5 Cuban heroes.

The creation of this group was a propitious moment to present a web page dedicated to disclose the real facts about the unfair case of the Cuban antiterrorists and to read some texts sent by Antonio Guerrero and Gerardo Hernández to the Florida’s inhabitants.

Barbara Baryolo, member of the main direction of the Communist party from Florida, explained the importance to increase the actions to disclose the true about this case and she also made reference to the significance that has the fact that our children and young people know about it and integrate the struggle for the return to these heroes to their motherland.

The new group of solidarity with Rene, Ramon, Gerardo, Antonio and Fernando who are imprisoned in United States jails are headed by Roberto Rodriguez Torrez and from now on it developed activities such as books presentation, encounters with the family and friends of the Cuban antiterrorist fighters and other actions that increase the struggle for this 5 patriots freedom.

The course tutor: a main figure in the new model of the professional’s formation

By: Reinier Barrios Mesa

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The differentiated attention and the advice of the course tutors with the students from the municipal universities is a priority for the work in this kind of education in Florida as a response to the demand that requires the new model of professional’s formation.

Most of The men and women that work as course tutors are directly connected to different productive and service entities, they have the educational category of associate professors and they put all their experience in favour to the student’s knowledge.

In the 4 universities from the municipality, the principals work to increase the course tutors demand and the presence of them in the different process that take place in this educational institutions as well as in the extracurricular activities that are developed in these centers.

This topic constitutes a priority in Florida today and in each university institution are adopted some strategies that guarantee the course tutors presence and the quality in the formation of the new professionals from the territory.

The convoy of the victory: 5 decades to remember

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

50 years after, the convoy of the victory come to Florida again, but this time the bearded men are young people and pioneers, who reissue that memorable day in which the rebel columns crossed by this territory.

Since January 1st, 1959, the people took the streets to receive the rebel combatants from the different columns that were arriving to the city: for the Cuban people this day a new era began.

When the convoy arrived to the capital of the country, many curious people went to see the rebels and the army that was defeated by the Cuban combatants who marched together and the message was evident: in the new era, all the people must march together in the construction of the new society.

One of those soldiers talked with the young people who were close to the convoy about the possibilities of study they will have with the revolution.

The people, who lived in Florida 5The convoy of the victory: 5 decades to remember years ago, welcomed the convoy of the victory and they understood the rebel soldier’s ethics as a symbol of the new era that began in Cuba.

The people from Florida are paying attention to the ceremony for the 50 anniversary of the Revolution

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

In spite of the people from Florida are celebrating the new year yet, they are paying attention to the ceremony that takes place in Santiago de Cuba to celebrate the 50 anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

Since very early in the morning, the inhabitants from Florida putted Cuban and the July 26 flags in their houses and convoked all the family to share together the important event.

In this moment, the people who live in this municipality watch the television and listen to the radio to follow all the ceremony that it is homage to the triumph of this revolution that it is an example for all the nations in the world.

The condition “The Moncada Heroes” recognizes the work of the Florida’s educators

By: Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

A total of 23 educational centers from Florida received the condition “The Moncada Heroes” because of the results obtained in the indicators that are taking into account to evaluate the work.

Among the centers that received this merit stand out the infant institution” little seeds of the future”, which has the best tutor and the most outstanding principal from this sector in the municipality.

This condition was also received by other centers such as the primary schools “Jose Marti”, “Renato Guitart” and “Tania La Guerrillera” as well as the special school “Jose Luis Tassende”, institutions that show excellent results in indicators such as the teacher’s superseding and the quality of the classes.

The presentation of “The Moncada Heroes” condition to 23 educational centers from Florida is a show of the dedication and responsibility of the workers from this sector, which follow de example of teachers such as Varela, Marti and Jose Antonio Saco.

The youth clubs of computer from Florida offer new courses for professionals

By Reinier Barrios Mesa
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The youth clubs of computer from Florida propose to the professionals from the territory a new possibility of academic superseding through a group of courses that will propitiate the study of programs and applications that will be very useful in the labour they develop.

The creation of habilities in the use of computer tools, the design of web pages, the use of the photo shop program and the search of information in the national red and in internet are among the possibilities that will have the university graduates from the territory with this option.

This initiative will be developed as a post graduate course and it will add two scientific credits to the academic curriculum of those people who approve each one of the contents as well as it will facilitate the use of the equipments located on these installations in favour to the learning and the knowledge about other sciences.

The registers to have access to these courses will be open during December and January and they want to create a space for professionals from some branches of the science in the municipality.

The people from Florida paid tribute to their martyrs

By Reinier Barrios Mesa.
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

A day of homage to the men who died in missions related to the defense of the country took place this Sunday in Florida, as part of the activities for the 19th anniversary of the tribute operation that honours the heroes and martyrs of internationalist missions and other actions in favour to the Revolution.

Since very early in the morning, the family of the combatants, the principal leaders and many people from Florida covered the streets of the city to place flowers in the cultural center “Luis Casas Romero” and in the bust of Antonio Maceo, located in the park “Jose Marti”.

The pilgrimage continued towards the cemetery, place where was developed a military ceremony, where the art instructors sang songs and recited poems that recalled the Giron days, the struggle against bandits, the Cuban mission in Angola and other actions to defend the Revolution.

In the pantheon of the men who fell in combat were placed flowers in the name of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, the minister of the Revolutionary armed forces and the people from Florida.

The ceremony celebrated this December 7th in Florida ended with the homage to the family of these martyrs to confirm once again the importance to bring to the present the history of more than 50 years of battles, guided by the proletarian internationalism and the love for freedom.

Jose Marti park, a part of the Florida’s identity

By Reinier Barrios Mesa.

(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

Our Jose Marti park, admired by all the visitors, has an area of 8000 square meters. Inaugurated on May 20, 1944, in commemoration of the anniversary of the restoration of the republic.

These festivities marked the end of almost thirty years of class struggle in relation to the municipal park. A commission, guided by Julio Alvarez Quijano, promoted and obtained the land, with an eye to its future value for the city.

It was very hard to fight against disbelief, because many people couldn’t see the importance of such a little park. In the 1920s the commission began to lay out the land and planted eight palms in commemoration of the medical students executed in 1871.

Students from the territory planted a tree in commemoration of Arbor Day and placed a statue of our national hero Jose Marti. The absence of economic resources limited park construction briefly, but work continued during the 1940s.

The park plan calls for two kind of benches : one with arms and the other without.Each person contributed according to his or her ability to pay.

Park benches were made of granite and on their upper portion was inscribed the names of those in charge of this project wrote their names. his situation, brought as a result that when the park was ended seemed a publicity seat.

On 1953 began the reconstruction of the park to give it more aesthetic with wood benches. The Jose marti park is like the heart of the city, thanks to it the history had lived and its trees are symbol not just of cubanity but the homage too.


On its sculptures and statues, people have collocated remembers , memories and deserved honours and on its benches, the love have been always present, many lovers gave their first and last kiss in this place, so, this park is part of the Florida’s identity.

Celebrated in Florida the 52 anniversary of the Granma yacht disembark.

By Reinier Barrios Mesa.
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

With a patriotic and military ceremony, the members of the revolutionary armed forces from Florida celebrated the 52 anniversary of the Granma yacht disembark and confirmed the soldiers and officers commitment to star in each one of the missions and tasks assigned by the Communist Party from the territory.

With the participation of Jesús Camilo Polo Vazques, main political leader from the municipality, the combatants remembered the history of the struggle in the “Sierra Maestra”, stared in by the rebel army.

During the ceremony, a group of officers were promoted to a superior rank and was also recognized the work of other mates, which dedication and participation in heroic events deserve to be admired by all the Cuban people.

This ceremony is the beginning of the activities in salutation to the 52 anniversary of the Granma yacht disembark and the creation of the revolutionary armed forces, dates that have an special connotation this year because the Cuban revolution will has half a century next January 1st.

49 years of a quarter that became school

By Reinier Barrios Mesa.
(barrios@rflorida.icrt.cu)

The attempts to become Florida in a different city began since January 1959, when the revolutionary government took possession of the power and announced laws and measures that made possible to deliver the wealth
generated in this city to the inhabitants from the country.

On November 22nd, 1959, the old quarter of Batista’s army became an educational center named “Jose Marti”, where hundred of children knew for first time the numbers and the letters.

The walls that before the revolution triumph heard the cry of pain of the people were tortured by the rural guard, now heard the laughs of children, who have the dream to learn.

During the latest 49 years, the old quarter was the school of many people from Florida and its classrooms and other locals have been used as venue of important scientific and cultural events.

After a total repairing as part of the ideas battle developed in Cuba, the primary school “Jose Marti” has new benefits such as a new dining room, a large square, televisions in each classroom and an internal red that make possible the showing of videos and other educational materials.

The school that gives prestige to the name of the apostle “Jose Marti” is past and present, memory and tradition, it constitute a pride for the people who live here nowadays.