No compatriot remains unaware: Cuba navigates a critical juncture in its national trajectory. Confronted by daily dilemmas facing families, many attest that the imperial blockade’s coercive, extraterritorial measures now inflict unprecedented severity – surpassing six decades of obstinate aggression.

Within this adversity, the Politburo of the Communist Party Central Committee’s decision to designate Ciego de Ávila as host for the National Commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the assaults on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks represents both a notable achievement and an opportunity for greater advances. Yet today’s context starkly contrasts with 1980, when the province last celebrated a triumph of this magnitude.

Where once construction materials and resources flowed freely – enabling housing projects, facility repairs, and new production/service centres – the present landscape differs profoundly.

What can we expect from an Avilanian 26th [of July]? Simply what our own efforts yield: creative labour that benefits populace and society. We can – and must – rely on our collective strength to ease community life, revitalise industries, factories, educational and commercial centres wherever possible, fostering environments of hygiene and aesthetic dignity.

This occasion demands transformations bearing a local signature – achievements whose satisfaction and inherent joy will flourish precisely through our capacity to realise them.

The coming days and weeks call for tireless exertion. They demand proof that in these lands where mambises and rebels outmanoeuvred oppressors through extraordinary sacrifice and heroism, a people endowed with their forebears’ victorious spirit now rises.

Ease eludes us. Each dawn births fresh obstacles; some days all paths seem barred. Yet Ciego de Ávila is summoned to demonstrate unbreakable will and creative resolve. Not for one second may we yield in this endeavour.