Four Guantanamo students won prizes in the XXI edition of the National Contest Leer a Marti, a joy for this province, with nearly a decade of good results in that event that calls for the study of life, literary work and ideology of the most universal of the Cubans.
The winners were announced at a press conference in the Cuban capital and among the awarded were, from the Villa del Guaso (former name of Guantanamo), Ingrid Ramírez, from the Iván Abel Rodríguez Day School; Legna de la Caridad Mena, from Pedro Pablo Rivera High School; Geandris Querot, from the José Antonio Echeverría Special School, and Amanda González, from the José Maceo Grajales Vocational School.
The first two won the awards of their respective levels of education (primary and secondary), along with 13 other contestants from the West, Center and East of the country, while the pioneer won the only national award given this year to special education and the pre-university student received the exclusive prize "José Martí and the work of October 10".
The news spread like good music to the ears of local educators, librarians, methodologists of literature and all those who support this contest sponsored by the National Library of Cuba, who acknowledged the award-winning students, who regularly participate at national competitions, such as Legna de la Caridad, awarded in 2018 in the "Know more who reads more" Contest.
Dianela Martinez, president of the jury of the provincial contest “Leer a Marti", stressed that the award was expected with great expectation, for the commitment and the long history of Guantanamo in these events, in several editions with many awards, four and even more awards in a single year, for a total of 53 from the first chapter of the contest, in 1998.