18 March 2022

As a child she dreamed of being a teacher or a nurse, but literature sparked her interest in journalism. There, in her native Senado she discovered the Soviet classics, Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari. Bárbara Suárez Ávalos has been a journalist for more than 40 years, and she still feels for her profession that passion of the first day. She has just received the Rolando Ramírez Provincial Award for the Work of Life.