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For its simple and fraternal, smooth and firm character at a time, people respect her, love her and follow her. Anilda Ruiz Pérez is the coordinator of the area 87 in the  Reynold Garcia neighborhood, near the Mario Muñoz Monroy Military Hospital , in the city of Matanzas, an area with 17 committees, where all tasks are important and surveillance is constant .

“This is a quiet place, everyone here knows that the night shift is done,” says proud and after stress is on the block, in the neighborhood where the most significant battles of the Revolution earned.

Although some seem quite unusual in the house of Anilda almost everything revolves around the life of the CDR. Her husband, Manuel Reyes, preceded it in the position since the founding of the area until 1996 Since then remains committed to help in whatever it takes. For both the most important thing is how they work with the zonal group, check for permanent tasks and achieve embullar everyone is articulated. These are the pillars that should not be ignored, she says.

“Some say we are aliens, but that’s not an exaggeration. They do so to criticize the weakness of the organization in other places only. I say they are like any other CDR. I believe there are no bad or good, the difference is in the consistency and the union of all the factors.

Sure, who heads may not be a figurehead, know draw the crowds, explain, call and demand “.

Area 87 is naturally the fact decorate the neighborhood, clean, paint, put flowers in nooks and Marti commemorate every month major anniversaries. All those things are, however, reason to rejoice and appreciate confirmation that the meaning of an organization of people.

Anilda and family warmth radiate your neighbors. “You can not be a leader no more. You must have time to attend and listen, not to disclose any remorse by neighbor, squeezing the hand that is in bad time, sick or embarrassed for any reason. Nobody can imagine how much it matters to others.

“I recently broke my health and people was very supportive. No one in the neighborhood was oblivious to my condition. Everyone helped and did their best to show their affection. I suspected that might be the case but still made me very happy. ”

When on the 18th they deliver the coveted award for the tireless coordinator, the legend of this woman of 68 years who has established an effective system of work in the CDR will be strengthened and all those designated as part of the CDR unforgettable story in Matanzas .

Original text by Ventura de Jesús on September 17th, 2014

Gloria Machado León

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