Periodico 26

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The forum expressed, on behalf of all the people of Las Tunas, the rejection of the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, which will be, they said, another failed attempt by the current United States Government to surrender the Cuban people for hungry.
To date, Las Tunas manages to harvest about 15 pounds per capita of food, vegetables, grains and fruits; however, although the highest government body here has detected increases in the hiring of future harvests, it emphasized the approaches of citizenship to the absence of agricultural products in state markets except for weekend fairs and main establishments in each of the municipalities.

There was consensus that the strengthening of the Collection Company should continue, so that there is more rigor in marketing at acceptable prices of what is harvested in the fields. It is also necessary, they insisted, the coordinated work of all government structures, state entities, cooperatives and individual producers in order to take advantage of the best lands and the possibilities that the beginning of the rainy season opens up. In this sense, they sought the revival of experiences that have fallen into disuse and that increase the availability of food such as livestock modules and family farming.

With the same critical sense they addressed the construction of housing, and specifically the granting of government subsidies for this purpose to low-income families. There are still without solution four thousand houses damaged from Hurricane Ike, which ravaged the territory in 2008. Thus, to say that at the end of April the housing construction plan was exceeded by 17 percent does not reflect the magnitude of the problem.

That is why the Assembly decided to specify that each municipality must produce enough materials to build two houses daily. This goal, said the delegates, will require establishing new and greater links between state trading companies and private producers of high demand assortments such as bricks.

In this 6th Ordinary Session it was learned that since the granting of subsidies began, the State has allocated funds over 168 million pesos; and 30 million more are planned for this year. Therefore, the analysis of the commission created by the Assembly to evaluate the progress of this program warned of organizational deficiencies that hamper its proper development. In particular, they criticized the persistent slowness in the legal processing of finished homes, the absence of means of protection and computation in the stores of construction materials, together with unjustified delays in its sale to the beneficiaries.

Jaime Chiang Vega, president of the Provincial Assembly of People's Power, stressed that this is a task in which the companies of the territory should be more involved. At the same time, he pointed out the decisive role of the delegates of constituencies in the correct identification of the neediest families of this kind of financial assistance.

Ariel Santana Santiesteban, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in the province and member of its Central Committee, stressed that the measure of efficiency in the production of food, rather than statistics, should be the opinion of the people. He said that passivity, insensitivity and tiredness have no place in the collective purpose of grant funds to those who need it most.

Yelenis Tornet Menéndez, Provincial Director of Finance and Prices until now, was approved for the position of vice-president of the Provincial Administration Council; Ernesto Luis Cruz Reyes, as agreed by the Assembly, will occupy her former post.

The government body in the province paid homage to the writer Carlos Tamayo, by the delivery of the supreme distinction it bestows: the Replica of the Machete of Major General Vicente García González, in just praise of the long career of the intellectual in the defense of the values of the National Culture and to place the Lion of Santa Rita, as Vicente García is also known, in the place he deserves within the Founding Fathers of the Cuban nation.

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