-DATE- 19680705 -YEAR- 1968 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- SPEECH -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- INAUGURATION OF THE EL MATE DAM -PLACE- ORIENTE PROVINCE -SOURCE- HAVANA RADIO & TV -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19680708 -TEXT- CASTRO SPEAKS AT EL MATE DAM INAUGURATION Havana Radio and Television Services in Spanish 2210 GMT 5 Jul 68 F [Speech by Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro at the inauguration of the El Mate Dam in Oriente Province--live] [Text] [The ceremony inaugurating the El Mate Dam in Oriente begins at 2145 GMT with a brief speech by chief Cuban engineer for the project Roberto Caballero. He is followed by a worker selected by his comrades to read a communique on the construction of the dam. After reading the communique, he is embraced by Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who then begins his speech.] Comrade builders of the El Mate Dam, comrade workers of the Contramaestre and Mate region [cheering, yelling] and Palma, and all the other comrades here present; comrades of Oriente and Comrade guests: This project has its history and certainly an interesting and beautiful history which was referred to here by the comrade engineer who directed the construction and the comrade vanguard worker who preceded me here. They explained how a dam could appear to be simple but have nothing simple about it Perhaps, as they explained it here very well, the greatest difficulty was the complete lack of experience in projects of this nature. It is enough to say, for example, that in our country, when the Institute for Water Resources was formed, there were four or five water resources engineers in the country. At this time we are still very far from having all of them that we need. However, there are approximately 50 water resources engineers in Cuba. This figure by itself, for a country which had no water resources projects of any type, a country where the largest dam was that of Charco Mono--as one comrade says over there, it would go dry--and which is dry right now and has been dry for more than a year, was for the purpose of providing water for Santiago, Cuba--[Castro does not finish] The dam of Hanabanilla, which was not a water resources dam but a hydroelectric dam, was not yet finished when the revolution triumphed. Naturally, there was no experience in this type of construction, and there was an absolute need for it. It was necessary to begin to control our streams in some way. I do not say rivers, because this country has no rivers. Anyone--any visitor who has an idea of what a river is--we tell him, this is the Contramaestre River, and he would ask, where is the river? [chuckles] Nevertheless, these streams, when the hurricanes come and when from 1,500 to 2,000 millimeters of rain falls in 72 hours as it did during Hurricane Flora--these streams become gigantic rivers. During that hurricane, the streams flooded to a width equal to almost that of the Amazon, which is the largest river in the world. At the city of Cauto, the floodwaters were 40 kilometers wide. Near the delta of the stream, the flooding covered an area from Estrada Palma to the surroundings of Tunas. All the streams joined and we had an Amazon in the middle of Oriente Province. It was necessary to begin the task of controlling the streams in order to overcome droughts and floods, for one is as harmful as the other. A country that had lived with technical backwardness under economic exploitation did not even have the chance to try to train a minimum number of trained technicians to perform these tasks, without which there would be no way to emerge from poverty, misery, and absolute dependence on uncontrollable forces of nature. And we have recently begun to do this. We are not inaugurating this dam with the idea that we have done a great thing. This is an important dam because it is one of the first, because it became a school, because it gave us experience, because it was built with the enthusiasm, goodwill, courage, and the tenacity of our workers. We are inaugurating a dam that is simply the beginning of the enormous water resources undertaking that must be carried out throughout the country. Some weeks ago, in this same province, we inaugurated the Cauto holding dam, which is for the irrigation of the new rice areas that are being planted in this province. That project, it was estimated, would require at least 2 years to complete under normal conditions. We must say that the project was built in 120 days. This was an irrigation project that will provide, if I am not mistaken, 20 cubic meters of water per second. In this case, a quantity of water is taken from the river equivalent to the water that can flow from that dam--some 20 cubic meters per second. On that occasion, we listed the materials and equipment used in the project. On this occasion we must point out, for example, some figures on this dam. Description of Dam The dam has a length of 850 meters, almost a kilometer. It has a maximum height of 52 meters. Truly, what are comrades have done here is to build a hill in the middle of the river bed, a hill 850 meters long and 52 meters high, and no one can say how wide--it does not say it here, but I believe it is some 300 meters. They have built this hill in the middle of the Contramaestre River. It has two gates. The spillway, which is here to the side, is 143.8 meters wide and 427.8 meters long. They have built a new river bed so that when too much water comes--and and we are all hoping that such a moment may arrive- -the excess can flow through that new river bed. The total volume of the impounded water is 200 million cubic meters. This means capacity for irrigating, depending on the crop, of course--if it is rice less, if it is sugarcane more--but it will allow the irrigation of some 3,000 caballerias of sugarcane, and 3,000 caballerias of sugarcane can produce a good quantity of sugarcane, some 300 million arrobas if we grow cane at 100,000 million arrobas--with the yield we have in Oriente Province--that would mean half a million tons of sugar-- a little bit less, perhaps, but not much less. They moved dirt, sand, and rock in the amount of 4,605,000 cubic meters. In cement construction of various other types, approximately 228,000 cubic meters were used. Some 1,850 cubic meters of lumber were used, 23,740 tons of cement, that is, 516,087 bags. Steel used was 4,100 tons. The maximum number of workers employed here was 1,050, and the average was 600. Sixteen bulldozers were used, 60 heavy trucks, 19 cranes nine loaders, 30 light trucks--there must be some people here who are very worried about the cane [aside by Castro as some of the crowd appears noisy and unsettled]--10 drills for making tunners, nine compressors, two concrete plants, and four machines for injecting concrete under pressure. The total cost of the project was 15,726,000 pesos. The project was begun 1 July 1964 and was finished in 4 years. There was one accident, of which the comrades spoke, on 27 May. A flood dragged off (?the dam apron). However, the comrades reacted to the need to accelerate the work and decided to shut the dam, that is, reach the point of safety by 1 May 1967. They did this by 20 April. This dam is being completely finished this year, but it has been impounding water since 20 August of last year because of the need for water. There was 496 houses in the river basin. It was necessary to move these families to new housing elsewhere. There were 2,500 people living where the lake is going to be now. Names of Planners It has already been explained here who planned the project. We must point out the the participation of Comrade Roberto Caballero, a Cuban engineer, in this construction; the participation of a French engineer, (Jean Claude Poncin) a Soviet engineer, (Valeriy Yaponekov), and something very important: the drafting of the plan for the project by a Soviet engineer, (Henri Gerasimov). Seven engineers took part in the construction of the dam and 23 engineers in the planning. Acts of Heroism These are the figures with respect to the costs in equipment, material, and effort made. However, as it was pointed out also, there is something more than appreciated by all of us and that is that this project cost the blood of some workers. Six workers were killed in various types of accidents during this construction, and this is something that should never be forgotten--the cost to the people for their liberation and their progress. The speakers here recalled the blood shed in revolutionary struggles, and all of you who live in this region will recall that only 10 years ago, around this very same town of Maffo and Contramaestre and Palma Soriano--and Baire and Jiguaney and all the others--hard battles were fought against troops serving the interests of imperialism and the exploiters of our fatherland. Many men of just those five towns, more than 50, were killed in a few days of fighting. Now we must think not only of the heroism of those who gave their lives in liberation struggles, but also of the heroism of workers in construction who give their sweat and sometimes their blood, as happened recently when an accident caused a fire in one of our refineries--a very important industry for our development. While fighting that fire, two workers were seriously injured and their condition at this time is most critical. Ten other workers in that center and comrades from the militia and the Ministry of the Interior were also seriously injured fighting the fire. This teaches us--or should teach us--the ideal by which workers defend their wealth, their factories, their work; and who could ask any workers for acts of heroism like these, with complete awareness of how important their work is, their industry, in the acts of heroism that port workers also demonstrated at the time of the criminal sabotage of the ship La Cubre in a Havana dock? In many similar incidents, they leap to control the fire even where there is fuel and explosives, protecting with their bodies and blood their work and the results of their sweat. How could this ever be conceived of in an exploiting and exploited society? How could it ever be thought that men would be ready to do something like this for what did not belong to them? These deeds, more than any words, prove the identification of the worker, in his deepest consciousness, with revolutionary work. That same worker who cones forward in times of danger, who struggles in Giron, who fights in the Escambray, who loses his life in any criminal sabotage, is ready to defend the revolution with weapons in struggle against imperialist enemies, and afterwards to defend it in struggle against nature and against the contingencies, the accidental circumstances, that can occur in his work. And these things teach us much more; that no manual and no word describes what a revolutionary installation is. Perhaps many thought that on the day after winning the fight with weapons, we would become heirs of abundance, take full possession of the wealth, when the only certainty was that one day after the victory with firearms, we would begin the time of constructing the country, the time for building the wealth of the future. And this work, together with our experience, the experience of all the people in this province, teaches us how there will be no security, no future, without this effort, this work. Irrigation, Control This water, as we were saying, this single dam will permit grain cultivation, extensive rice and cane plantations. In this same province, as you know, it did not rain last spring and the harvests were lost. It did not rain in the autumn either, and the harvests were lost. As a result of the drought, the cane suffered considerably. How does nature behave? It behaves paradoxically, willfully. Nature follows its physical or biological laws, not the laws and will of man. Man must fight against mature to force his will on it, his laws. In 1963, unusual floods which cost more than 1,000 lives in this province, sudden avenues of water kilometers wide, the famous wave of water, as the peasants call it, appeared in the early morning hours, cutting off all escape, and swept away hundreds of dwellings. Thousands of persons lived through endless anxiety in the treetops, on the roofs of houses; and hundreds of children died. There were families who lost all their children in that terrible situation; some children lost their parents and all their brothers and sisters. Then there was 27 May 1966. An early rise in the level swept away the (?apron) of this installation.' That is, in 1963 there were tremendous floods, and in 1966, with work in progress, an enormous rise in the month of May; nevertheless, last year the builders made superhuman efforts and attained the safety height of 113 [presumably meters], closed the dam, and it rained very little the rest of the year; nor was there water in this dam even for the residents along the river. It was even necessary to pump water with a motor-driven pump because it did not even reach the height of the tunnel. This year, nature continues to act in a paradoxical manner. From the borders of Camaguey Province to the extreme western part of the country, it has rained copiously [confused shouting in background] they say that they are blocked, that over 4,700 people are isolated by the dam. It is a problem. We will take care of it [someone yells something] It will not be so difficult that it cannot be solved. [more shouting] I am not going to talk about roads now. [more shouting] Well, we are now informed, let somebody else talk who probably has something] [others shout] very well, but what I am saying here, I believe, is also of interest to you that there will be rice, milk, meat, root crops; is that not right? Do you agree? [more shouting, applause] I was telling you that from the borders of Camaguey to the extreme western part of the country, it has rained copiously since May, in the months of May and June. The only province in which rain has not been plentiful, in which the rains have not yet been extraordinary, has been Oriente Province. And this is not throughout the province. In some parts of Oriente, such as Bayamo, it has rained more in these months than it has rained since I do not know when. Nevertheless, in other areas, such as Bane, Guantanamo, the southern part of the Sierra Maestra, rain has been very scant, and except for some showers in this region and a few in Guantanamo a few days ago, there are areas where there has been virtually no rain for 2 years. Now we have this extraordinary condition that from El Mate down--in Bayamo, Baire, Jiguani, Contramaestre, everywhere--it has rained tremendously, but in the headwater area of the Contramaestre River--a river you all know well, that same river that on 27 May 1966 destroyed the (?apron)--as of this moment, and although it has been almost a year since the dam closed off the river, there it sits with some 30 million meters of water. This means that this project has had to confront all these difficulties and now that it is finished, the river cut off, the amount of water it has impounded is insignificant. That is the capricious and paradoxical manner in which nature behaves. Of course, we do not believe that this dam will continue to be empty. We will see how long it takes to fill it. We are going to see how much it rains in July, and we are going to see when October comes how much it will rain. We have seen this river flooding many times, flooding greatly and causing damage with its floods, and it is finally time, I believe, that this river should lose the battle. This river has to increase its flow, and in spite of its tremendous resistance, its tenacious resistance, it must allow itself to be harnessed by man. This river has very little time left in which it can destroy man's work, fight man's efforts; very little time left in which it will do as it pleases. This dam has also been built with all safety measures. It has been built so that it can withstand rains and floods even greater than those of Hurricane Flora. It is said that a Flora can happen every 500 years. This business about it happening every 500 years does not mean that there will not be two Floras in succession. It can be 500 or 1,000 years between Floras, or it may be only 3 or 4 or 10 years. However, when this dam was being built, the chance that a storm of that nature could take place was taken into account. All safety measures were taken. It has an artificial spillway with a bed great enough to handle more water than that of Hurricane Flora. Well and good; this year in Oriente Province, nine dams will be built. A large dam will be started in the area of Guantanamo in November. A large dam will be built on the Nice River. Several dams will be built on the various rivers of the Holguin area. A dam will be built on the Pedregal River. A dam will be built at Leonero Lake. A dam will be built on the Jobabo River, and a dam larger than this one will be the one called "Veinticuatro" in the Cauto Valley. It will be able to impound 285 million cubic meters of water. However, that dam will not be as difficult to build as this one, because its apron, which is very long, is not very wide. It will. primarily be a problem of moving dirt. However, with that water and the underground water that we will begin to use next year--and for this purpose 25 well-digging machines will arrive--we will have enough water by next year to irrigate the sugarcane. We will have the water from this dam, the water that this dam impounds from now until the end of the year. We will have the water that is impounded by the Paso Malo Dam on the Yara River. We will have some 90 million cubic meters of underground water in the cane-growing area of North Oriente where the large sugar mills are. We will have, at the beginning of next spring, just in case we have a dry year next year, the nine dams that are to be built in about 6 months. The cranes and part of the equipment used here will go to work on the "Veinticuatro" dam as soon as the dry season starts. Two hundred heavy new 10-ton trucks will be added to water resource projects in Oriente Province. Looking toward the 1970 sugar crop, we will have in Oriente Province approximately 1 billion cubic meters of water. This is more than enough to irrigate at least 10,000 caballerias of sugarcane there. This means that measures are being taken aimed at fulfilling the goals set for 1970 throughout the country. This is in addition to the enormous areas of new Sugarcane being planted and of considerable amounts of underground water and water in dams throughout the country. The equipment being used in water resources construction this year is enough to move 70 million cubic meters of earth per year. To get an idea of the fleet of equipment used, it is enough to say that enough new earth moving equipment is being added to move 12 times the amount of earth moved to build this dam of El Mate, the largest dam built thus far in our country. We will also add 75 new well-drilling machines. Of course, these water resources projects will not be devoted to sugarcane alone. They will be devoted to the new rice plantings, root crops, and so forth--to all the agricultural projects in our country. However, as a result of this effort we will free ourselves of floods. With respect to floods, hundreds of kilometers of canals are also being built. These canals and dams will allow us to control the water. Controlling water means overcoming droughts. In years of much rainfall, we will store enough water to face any drought no matter how severe. Then we will have security in our work, the assurance that every minute, every hour of man's efforts will be useful. Water will not only give us security in our work; there is also the fact that under present conditions of our country, agriculture depending on rain is extremely difficult because of 3, 4, or 5 months of drought. Machines can work and prepare thousands of caballerias of land--our country has the ability to plow 60,000 caballerias of land per year---but the land must be prepared and then we must wait for the rain. When the rains come suddenly throughout the country, it is virtually impossible to plant all the crops in only 15 days, plus the scores of thousands of caballerias of sugarcane. This water will allow us to do many things, but above all it will allow us to distribute the use of machines and our labor force throughout the entire year. We will be able to plant in January, February, March, and April. It will not be necessary to plant in May or June. What will sugarcane agriculture be like, for example, in future years? In future years, thanks to water, machinery, herbicides, and airplanes, sugarcane will not be touched by man--thanks to the sugarcane combines also. To produce two, three and even four times more sugarcane than used to be produced in this country, it will not be necessary for man to touch the sugarcane. Equipment with powerful motors will be able to plow the land from the beginning of the sugar harvest. We will be able to harvest the cane with machines and to plow the land for the new sugarcane with machines during the dry season. We will plant the cane with machines. We will fertilize the cane with machines. We will guarantee its growth with irrigation. We will control weeds with herbicides. With airplanes, we will spray foliar urea or solid fertilizers. We will be able to have the luxury of cutting the cane not at 12 months but at 20, 22, and 24 months. Without irrigation there cannot be any 24-month cane because when the drought comes it will kill any canefield. This forces us to cut cane every year. After cutting 80,000 or 100,000 caballerias of sugarcane, we have the task of weeding and cultivating 100,000 caballerias of cane. This province already has some 30,000 caballerias of cane. Almost 100,000 men have had to work at weeding and fertilizing it. Next year, 700 tractors with cultivators will cut the weeds, ditch and hill the cane, and apply fertilizer. This will avoid having to use a labor force for weeding and fertilizing. When we have enough water to have all canefields under irrigation, then we will have 2-year cane. And we say that in the future, when June comes around--that month when the entire province has to go to work in the canefields--in the future, sugarcane workers' vacations can be taken in June. There will be no need to weed sugarcane because weeds will be controlled by herbicides. It will not be necessary to fertilize by hand at that time because it will be done by airplanes. The pilots will not have vacations in June. I explain this to you so that you will have an idea of how many benefits for man can be derived from controlling nature and from the use of technology. We still do not have many of those resources, and we are developing them. We still do not even have the resources to buy the herbicides that we need, but when some ask why that enormous effort is being made, the answer is that it is being made not only so that we can provide what our people need, not only to satisfy the needs of our people, but also to liberate man from such hard work as that which he has to perform today, hard work with low productivity. Then man can have yields that are incomparably greater with efforts that cannot be compared with the efforts made today. However, the efforts being made today are needed very much so that this can come about. This country has to build its material base, it has to build its wealth. The victory of armed struggle meant the chance to do this. These years have been used for this: to work as much as we are able, to the limit of our resources, our abilities, and our experience. Experience cannot be underestimated. Much experience has been acquired during these past years. In these past years, many resources have been accumulated. Today, a dam like this one can be inaugurated. Next year we will be able to inaugurate nine or 10 dams. We are going to work in nine zones on some large dams and in others on a system of small dams. But next year no one will have enough time to finish the dams that are going to be built during the coming dry season, except in Oriente Province. Thus our country will be amassing the resources and the means necessary to live a more decent life. To live a more human life. We cannot speak of revolution if the revolution does not humanize living and working conditions for man. Revolutionary Progress Many good things in many areas may have been done by the revolution. It eradicated illiteracy, built schools in all corners of the country, hospitals in all corners of the country also. Many good things may have been done by the revolution to liberate the people from the exploitation of their work as in the past, to liberate the peasants from exploitation by landowners, to liberate the workers from exploitation by the rich. Perhaps nothing can compare with what a revolution signifies when it liberates man from dehumanized, unproductive work, when it liberates man from working conditions that are barely different from those performed by animals and allows him to work under conditions incomparably more human. When there is no man in this country who has to cut cane, when there is no man who has to plow behind a yoke of oxen, when there is no man who has to use a hoe to cut weeds [several words indistinct] does not have to perform that work, then the revolution will have performed one of its most human accomplishments and will have moved from working conditions fit for beasts to working conditions that are truly human. [applause] That is why, and it is for that, that in these years we have had to work so bitterly hard. That is why we have had to work like beasts: because on many labor fronts we still do not have the machines that we need and the means we need. We have had to win a battle against time. We have had to overcome the backwardness of centuries in just a few years. It was an effort which an exploited and under developed country had to make, an effort which our brothers in Latin America cannot make, for they are subjected to the domination of the Yankee monopolies, subjected to the domination of the large landowners, subjected to the domination of exploiters whose interests prevent, with their niggardly and enslaving production processes, the development of the human and natural resources of a country. Our country has been developing those human and natural resources during these past years. As Comrade Engineer Caballero said very well, it was even necessary to teach the operators how to operate those cranes, those bulldozers, those trucks that were acquired. That is what has been done on all fronts. This work has had to be done in the midst of struggle against our enemies, in the midst of struggle against the imperialists, amid the blockade. This has been the most worthy effort by our people in these past few years. This has been the most heroic effort; and we are now approaching years in which poverty will be left behind, in which misery will be left behind. The effort of all these years in all areas--in cattle, where from cows that gave a liter and one-half of milk per day we have developed cows that are able to satisfy our needs for milk for all our children and all the people of our country--effort in agriculture and in all areas will allow us in a short time--and nothing can stop it--to have all those things that have been scarce during all these years. We will have enough of them to satisfy our needs in a very short time. Next year we will see a great leap in production of sugar. We will see how we will take all measures so that no drought can prevent our production from increasing continuously. We will see how enormous areas will be devoted to the production of rice and root crops, milk, meat, and all essential crops. We will see how we will develop a modern agriculture, highly mechanized, with technology and high productivity, so that we will have the material base, not to be able to sit down and rest, but to carry out other tasks, to continue to advance, once the battle of agriculture is won, the battle of industry; so that we can begin the next decade with all resources, incomparably more resources than those we have had up to now; so that we can continue our accelerated development in the field of economy, culture, education, and in all areas of our country. This dam had to have a name. This year marks the 100th anniversary of that day on which Cubans rose up in arms to begin a war of independence. On that day, Cubans rose with weapons to begin the war of independence, the first war of independence, which lasted 10 years. They fought 10 years and did not win their independence-- beautiful pages full of ineffable heroism. They fought again in '95, and after 30 years of heroic struggle, the imperialists came, intervening in the war that was almost won, and established their rule in our country. One hundred years have had to pass--and few can say that they are 100 years of age-- 100 years of work from the Manuel de Cespedes and Cuban patriots' uprising in arms to free the slaves--from that uprising to the present. Much blood, much sacrifice, much work. Fifty years of false republicianism, 50, no, 58 years of hard work, with our people facing poverty, 58 years working like beasts, 58 years planting cane, felling the woods with axes, planting cane with picks and cutting it, working for landholders, working for Yankee companies; 58 years working for the rich and the exploiters. Nevertheless, and fortunately, after 100 years we can now inaugurate this installation, which is only the beginning of all that will be done in the coming years at an accelerated pace. Name of Dam Can there be anything more proper in naming this installation, 100 years from the beginning of the struggle for independence, than calling it the Carlo Manuel de Cespedes Dam? [applause] Cespedes lived hard and risky days in these mountains of the Sierra Maestra. Cespedes often crossed this Contramaestre River, and finally he died in San Lorenzo, where this river has its source. As just tribute to that patriot who began the struggles for our independence, and to those who fought with him and supported him in that task, there is nothing more proper than giving this name to this installation, as the first large one, the one which was their schooling, and is looked upon proudly by our workers and technicians. Therefore, from today onward, and with your approval, this installation will have only the name of Carlo Manuel de Cespedes. [applause] We hope that soon we will see it totally filled. Road Construction Concerning the comrades whose road has been commandeered: we shall take steps at once to study their case. This province now has 22 new brigades, organized in the past year, for roads and highways. I think that they have already built, near Dos Palmas, a road leading to near Pinalito, that they are now building one from Dos Palmas to Los Banos and one to San Lorenzo. Another brigade is building a road from Victorinos to Matias or Los Negros. Other brigades are building to the south and east, on the plain and in the second front. But no work will be finished immediately, nor any new brigade organized, nor will we have available any of the 22 brigades who have finished any of the roads to solve this problem immediately. It has not just dams that are under construction. Never have we used so many machines and bulldozers and built so many roads, so that we will have 30 brigades working in Oriente Province by the end of the year. We will fill this province with roads and highways, and not only [applause] do we hope to have built 5,000 kilometers of roads throughout the country next year, and by 1975 to have 40,000 kilometers of highway--let us say roads and highways--but they will be mostly all highways, because they will be paved as they are laid out. We accomplish nothing by building splendid roads through these mountains only to have them eroded by the first rains. For this reason, they will continue paving, and we hope to have by 1975, constructing about 5,000 kilometers of highway a year [does not finish thought]. To give you an idea, we say that next year we will build more highways in the country than were built in the past 60 years [applause]--in one year. At this time there are approximately 72 brigades. When giant brigades were begun, we spoke of 59 brigades. Afterwards, they increased in number, machinery was better utilized, and new resources were acquired. By the end of the year, we will have not 59 but 104 brigades throughout the country. Our need for communications lines also increased. The population has grown. Families live in every corner. There is not a single hill of those over there that does not have a family on it. We know what happens when the rains come--total isolation. Many times we have heard stories told us by some families of what happened when someone was ill. How many stories have we heard about families who died in the past because they had no way to move in time, that is, members of the family died because they had no means to get to a hospital in time! Today, hospitals are scattered throughout the mountains. Nevertheless, roads are needed, and not a single place in the country will remain isolated. No one will be isolated, particularly when there are so many people who are happy because this dam has been finished. [applause] The same thing goes for water resources. When will water resources work end? When there is not a single stream, a single stream that is not dammed. I believe that this will not take long because of the volume of resources that we have at this time for the accomplishment of this work. Congratulations to all the builders of this dam; and fatherland or death, we will win! [applause] -END-