Evelio Capote Castillo

Evelio, Labor Hero of the Republic of Cuba, the man who told Fidel that it was possible to build roads over the sea.

He was chief of the Roberto Rodríguez construction contingent –El Vaquerito–, and there he participated in countless works of economic and social benefit, among which stands out the Turiguanó-Cayo Coco causeway, a road that, with a distance of 35 kilometers, opened the doors to tourism development to the keys north of Ciego de Ávila.

He made the assertion a reality that "Here you have to throw stones without looking forward," he was an unsurpassable professional of honesty and work. Upon completion of the causeway, on November 13, 1993, the work was classified as a Labor Feat.

In conversation with the press months before his death, Evelio Capote recalled that they undertook the first meters of the causeway with few resources, barely with some trucks that transported the stones from a nearby quarry.

Capote, who in recent times suffered from kidney failure, was part of the July 26 Movement, participated in several combat actions in the last war of liberation, and was a deputy to the National Assembly of People's Power.

At the time of his death he was retired and died at 87 years of age. His ashes were scattered by his family members on the Turiguanó-Cayo Coco causeway.