The scene repeats from Monday until Saturday in this point located geographically to 1.5 kilometers of the town municipal head, going for the highway that takes to Nuevitas.

The disintegration of the Basic Unit of Cooperative Production, in Lugareño, another population settlement of Minas, forced Francisco Hernando Argilagos to change five years ago his labor status of technical agronomist for that of manufacturer of blocks.

The work of this 48-year-old man, who turns out to be tanned by the work, is to put in the concrete mixer the sand of resistance, granite and the cement P-350, given to two operators, who rotate the manual work.

It is not easy to be bend for hours throwing the mix in the mold and although it is to the shade, is in the tiring heat.

The block manufacturer, belonging to the Company of Local Industries, supplies their products to works of the construction of companies of the territory, of natural persons and others.

Hardly ever the representatives of the companies that go to gather the blocks take personnel to manipulate them towards the trucks. It is them who are in charge of assuming this operation.

With the barrows, from the area of production, they move the blocks of 10 for 50 centimeters, towards a point where they remain seven days, throwing them abundant water two times a day, work in charge of a woman. Then they remain three more weeks in rest up to being ready for the commercialization.

In the installation two machines are ready to process blocks of 15 for 50 centimeters, choice of major demand in the municipality, in expectation of a few slats to mount the molds.

Breaks of the trucks of the base of municipal load have limited the extraction of 3 700 blocks assigned to Home Trade and the 4 000 to organisms of the municipality.

Omelio de la Torre Rodríguez, head of the block manufacturer, gave faith that they look for alternatives not to suspend the production, which up to today is provided with the material insurances.

He just returned from the quarry “Viet Nam Heroico”, in the municipality of Sierra de Cubitas, where he went to specify the delivery of the materials so that the small scale industry continues its rhythm and the quality does not droop, watched rigorously by them and periodically for the personnel of standardization of the Company.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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