CAMAGÜEY.- Camagüeyan topographers, with half a century experience and of posterior generations, met to compare the memories of touching the ground with hands and feet, distances saved today in time and space with the use of drones, robots and other digital, sophisticated techniques, that humanize the hard work on rough ground.

The appointment took place at the seat of the Provincial Board of the Union of Cuban Architects and Construction Engineers (UNAICC), where the “rookie” topographers, experienced now, shared anecdotes, young experiences about distant and present marks left by the founder engineer Ángel Esteban Pérez Marín, awarded for a life’s work in 2011, with the prevailing presence of Fidel, who, from the first years of the Revolution, supported wisely the main activity of the territorial regulation, encouraged and inspected the ambitious and necessary posterior plans: the dairy of Niña Bonita, the Rectangle for Feeding Cattle in Guáimaro, the Dairy Triangle…

Time flew by since the first graduation of topographers in the school in Caimito, in Bauta, Havana, until the breakthroughs accomplished in the vast Camagüeyan plains… and among jokes and hugs, the years became minutes, seconds, and among the recognitions for the fidelity to the profession, the Revolution and to Fidel, they discovered new springs, lifted new beacons, drew and united more solid and shorter roads; although the international lines, of those that today have gray hairs or no hair at all, like Angola, the master Armando Pérez Sánchez, headed the meeting with precision.

To the meeting of topographic engineering, assisted other constructing veterans of works on square ground, to the calling of a new convocation from the provincial president of the UNAICC, Ibis Alfaro García, of creating a provincial section of retired people to write and record the history and rich experiences in the plains in black and white and by the hand of the protagonists.