She was and is strict but her facts prospered in the directions of the Trade Union of Education in the municipality and of the polytechnical school "Sabino Pupo". Nevertheless, she was discovered by the neighbors of her native community Ortigal, when in 1976 they chose her: forever? as delegate of the first order of the Peoples´ Power, and deputy to the first term of the Cuban Parliament.

“39 years have passed: I am already not a youngster, but as long as the people keeps on trusting in me, I feel useful and not old”, says the anxious woman, president of the Popular Council Las Parras.

Along with Francisca (Panchita) León Bermúdez, Iraida Curró Basulto, Mario Millares Socarrás and José Pimentel Fernández, Nieves López Ruiz, constitutes one of the five current props of the foundation of the Local Organs of Government in the province, re-elected in the first turn in the last partial suffrages of the Peoples´ Power.

Since she opened her eyes the cane and the pastures were her environment: her parents were employed at the Argentina sugar plant, where also today, her son Walter works, and she, on any locomotion way, walks and backtracks cane plantations and pastures, exchanges with the protagonists of the rural and state cooperative farms of Las Margaritas, El Oronte, Los Cocos, Las Martinas... that, according to the delegate-president, give her energy to continue until: "my electorate should want”.

Realized?

“Realized yes because what I have done it with pleasure.

Which are the most repeated expositions in the electorate requests?

“The electorate requests alternative transports to attenuate the scarcity of buses and other vehicles, asks to increase the cultural, sports and recreational activities, that there are more gastronomic supplying in the rural areas. Also the public system of illumination is an old demand and the electrification of El Paraíso, a small settlement”.

Good things?

“That despite the drought that depresses the wells we have water in Caonao, El Martillo, the Caobita, Moronta … That the five offices of the community doctor are repaired and covered, that the education goes well... and that we expect, with a major support of the Agriculture, the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), Azcuba... to raise the economy of the Council with self help for the community well-being”.

And we agree with Nieves: to have more and better, first it is necessary to produce sugar, milk and diverse food for the people.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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