Nila Ortega Casimiro, is the name of the patriot whose life and work are outlined in these lines. The example of it endures in a special way in San Antonio de los Baños, -at that time to the municipality of the province of Havana-, the land where she was born on September 26, 1909 and where she took the first steps, played, grew and longed for the freedom of his homeland.
She was persecuted for being one of the organizers of the 1935 strike and for participating in subversive activities against the pseudo-republic administrations in search of a dream for her country. Harassed by the oppressive regime due to her participation in rebel actions, she settled in Havana in 1937, and there she became a union leader.
He participated in the Constituent Congress of the Confederation of Cuban Workers, and in the 3rd Women's Congress. She also excelled in campaigns for the equality of women, and in solidarity with the Spanish people. Because of her abundant merits, in 1940 she turned out to be the first woman councilor appointed by the Communist Revolutionary Union Party in order to hold that position in the City Council of Havana.
From the ranks of the Popular Socialist Party, she had a clear vision of the performance of the Cuban working class in the struggle to conquer economic and social improvements. During the dictatorship, and although she was subjected to relentless persecution, she joined the Pro-Primero de Mayo committee and participated in the founding of the Confederation of Workers of the province of Havana.
This organization elected her as its representative to the Women's Congress held in Paris, and in which the International Women's Democratic Federation was established. In the intense revolutionary struggle, he stood out for his qualities as leader of the Democratic Federation of Cuban Women and the Popular Socialist Party, in the neighborhood of Arroyo Apolo, in Havana; and in the Executive Committee of the Provincial Association Pro-Popular Education of Women, created in the Havana town of Luyanó.
Patriot of notable ideas, she perpetuated for posterity the testimony of her experiences in the revolutionary work. After January 1, 1959, Cuban Liberation Day, Nila Ortega assumed an important role in the conquests of the town. She was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba and delegate of the Popular Power in the municipality of Diez de Octubre. In this territory she held political and administrative responsibilities.
She attended the first Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba and worked for more than a dozen years as a member of the secretariat of the Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples, until she retired from work.
The prominent patriot died in the Cuban capital in February 1996.
