Artemisa, Cuba - With the objective of increase the recruitments for the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), was held the award ceremony of the Children's Contest "El MININT y Yo" in the municipality of Artemisa.

First place winners were five students from the schools Protesta de Baragua in the municipality of Mariel, Manuel Ascunce Domenech from Güira de Melena, Marcos Antonio Lafá from Mariel, Pablo de la Torriente Brau and Carlos Muñiz Varela, both from the municipality of Bauta.

They competed in the modalities of Plastic Arts and Literature at the school levels of Moncada Pioneers, José Martí Pioneers level 1 and José Martí Pioneers level 2.

Present at the event were the President of the Pioneers of the Young Communists Union of Cuba (UJC) in the province of Artemisa, Lieutenant Colonel Armando García Urrutia, as well as chiefs, MININT fighters, pioneers, students and professors from different schools in the province.

Translated by Lorenzo Raúl Alonso López