For several weeks, the staff of the Radio Havana Cuba international station (RHC) has been receiving messages of congratulations and greetings, on occasion of its 50th anniversary held on May 1st, from many places of the world.

Due to technological development and the emergence of the internet, stations having their digital version are considered international stations, but for the Cuban radio workers, Radio Havana Cuba, continues to be the station that represents the country the most in the international battles, a place won with the work carried out, when the events of the Bay of Pays invasion took place.

At the age of thirteen he was working as a shopkeeper in a Havana grocery store without having the age to do it, he was captivated by the fascinating world of the radio and could not escape from it.

Fifty years later, Ignacio Canel admits that in that time he listened to the radio serial and thought that everything was really happening. More than knowing, he imagined it and he was also carried away with the magic of the radio of making us to see and believe with the ears.

The director of Radio Caribe, in the special municipality of the Isle of Youth is a smart and cheerful woman and with an impressive voice. Doris Cairo welcomes those who come to her, with her infectious smile, her will for living and her love for the radio makes her an indispensable person. For this reason the Portal of the Cuban Radio visited The Isle of Youth ( popularly known as Treasure Island)  to talk with this Villa Clara woman who became an Isle of Youth settler.

MS: Where is Doris Cairo from? How did you get to know the Isle of Youth?

DC: I was born in the province of Villa Clara in a very small town called Sierra Morena, in the municipality of Corralillo, in the north region of Villa Clara, it was a beautiful land, the land of painter Romañach and also where Dora Alonso wrote her famous novel Furia Blanca.