My WhatsApp contacts are as diverse as their states: there are memers, intellectuals, people who publish how much food they eat and how much music they listen to, vendors, those who promote their businesses... But motivational "postcards" never go out of style, phrases that are supposed to lift your spirits and help you feel better; some, humorous; others, deeper.

Sometimes you meet a person and you don't know important issues about her, especially if she is simple and doesn't go divulging her virtues, but since life is in charge of putting things in their place, I learned that Dr. María Teresa Díaz Renón, Teresita, is a woman worth noting on a date like today, March 8.

Yunelkis Rivero Mayedo seems thin and petite, but many voices inhabit her inside her, as if she spoke and little people came out of her mouth. Yune, that's what her friends call her, she runs the Dos hermanos farm in Jimaguayú and works as an economics worker at the CCS Evelio Rodríguez in that municipality in Camagüey.