Mariela Carballo Vidal, an unstoppable female, who fills the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in Guantánamo with new energy and courage, always ready for the sugar harvest, among the first in volunteer work, blood donations, promoter of the need for give more employment and advancement to women.
"For the federated women, no problem is foreign to us," he assures, "because as Fidel said, we are a permanent Revolution within the Revolution."
With more than 30 years as a member of the Federation, the septuagenarian from Guantanamo states that the organization has been and is a vanguard in the fight for equality and the rights of Cuban women, however, it can still do more in favor of the Cuban social model In this sense, work is already underway, management styles are renewed, experiences are rescued and with new objectives they are revitalized internally and externally in search of more conquests.
“It is necessary to increase the leading role of the federated women in the base delegations, the political-ideological preparation of the leaders, but, above all, to increase the link with the organizations and institutions to transform the community”, she affirms.
Mariela proudly treasures her years as a leader of the FMC: first General Secretary in the municipality of El Salvador between 2005 and 2009; She remembers from then, the organization of a great mobilization of women for the coffee harvest in Bayate as part of the activities for the birth of Tamara Bunke Bider.
"It was a very nice stage, we gathered 19 cars full of housewives, workers from all sectors, young people, who cleaned the entire area at the height of the coffee's ripening peak, after which we did the emulation check at Los Pinos de Bayate" , details Carballo Vidal, now retired.
Mariela's vocation as a leader goes back a long time, when at the beginning of the difficult 90's she was a professor at the Reynaldo Castro Fernández polytechnic in El Salvador, the same center where she studied and was asked to stay once she graduated. So the spirit of convocation, responsibility and commitment to duty stood out in the student and later in the young woman who taught classes.
“I always say that my training as a boxer was in El Salvador, even though I belong to Niceto Pérez. That is why I thank my professors from that stage, and also Catalina Fuentes López, recently deceased, who was the chair of the Federation of Cuban Women in the province; her talent, dedication and perseverance with her organization were the example to follow for many generations of female leaders, she really deserves eternal tribute, ”she says with a broken voice.
Mariela Carballo is excited to talk about the work of the federated women, which she defines "as a work of infinite love." She then takes as an example the preventive and prophylactic work against gender violence, sexual education to prevent teenage pregnancy, care for vulnerable families, mothers with many children, community workshops.
"The tasks of the FMC are multiple, and that is what our eternal Commander Fidel said when he founded the organization when he expressed that the Revolution had great support in the female sector of our population, and we have fulfilled each task," she says.
Carballo Vidal has been a Party instructor, a member of the FMC secretariat in the province to deal with the ideological sphere, a delegate of constituency 32 in the Caribbean People's Council, and has received multiple awards for her dedication and dedication to each responsibility, including the Ana Betancourt Order, granted by the Council of State, recently received in a solemn ceremony for the 62nd anniversary of the foundation of the FMC.
“Now I am retired, not retired,” she says jokingly and adds that, although she has held different positions, she always introduces herself as Mariela, the federated one, “because as Vilma instilled in us, in every space we are in we continue to defend the ideals of dignity , emancipation and justice achieved in this Revolution, to which I will always be faithful”, he concludes.
Taken from the Newspaper Venceremos
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