CAMAGUEY, CUBA.- (acn) The four decades of exercise of Popular Power in the province of Camagüey have been fraught with challenges, but the people have always responded with stoicism and revolutionary spirit, said Evis Blas González Martínez, third president of the Provincial Assembly of that body in the territory.

Minutes before the Solemn Assembly with which the 40th anniversary of the founding of the local organs of the People's Power was celebrated in this city, he recalled the difficult moments he experienced during his mandate between 1988 and 1994, where we passed from a stage of effervescent development to the crisis called Special Period.

We passed from the years of construction boom in which buildings of between 12 and 26 floors were erected, the Ignacio Agramonte Revolution Square, about 300 dairy farms, the first powdered milk factory, among others, to complex situations where the value of Camagüey people and their government were tested, he commented.

Little by little we went ahead, with unity and resistance, until reaching this moment where Camagüey undergoes a flowering that is due in large measure to the leadership of the current People's Power, by its impulse and interest to resume many of these development programs, added Gonzalez.

Besides him, in the Solemn Assembly attended by Jorge Luis Tapia, first secretary of the Communist Party in Camagüey, other presidents who led the province during those four decades were honored.

Isabel González,current Government President in Camagüey, gave to Tapia the Replica of the Saber of Major General Ignacio Agramonte, highest distinction granted by the province, by his direct link with the people and impetus to important economic and social works.

In his closing remarks, Tapia expressed that Cuba has a genuine democratic system unique in the world, where the people nominate and choose, and pride and satisfaction must be reasons for constant commitment to their defense.

In Camagüey, the festivities for the 40th anniversary of the founding of the current parliamentary system in Cuba have a special connotation, since this territory is the cradle of national constitutionalism, where three Magna Cartas were signed during the wars of independence against Spain in the 19th century.