Gladis Torres Cancela, is one of those retired women of the Light Industry in Contramaestre difficult to find, but the trade learned since adolescence made her a reference in the art of sewing, sewing love and threading all the tenderness of her inner universe.
And the fact is that this woman with 80 years of age, from a very young age, was born with the gift of sewing by machine, without letting die that skill demonstrated with greatness in the textile factory “Rodolfo Rodríguez Benítez” of this municipality.
In this workers’ collective where production is mass-produced, Gladis Torres excelled in the finishing of shirt collars, whose perfection and dynamism in the finishing of this piece of clothing, distinguished her among the workers of her collective to achieve the qualification of seamstress A.
But the art in this essential craft in daily life and predilection for the needle, thread and sewing machine, also transcended in the union activity of her factory where Gladis led as General Secretary, to be among the first of the Light Industry of Santiago de Cuba.
Always identified with the sewing learned empirically, Torres Cancela, never found an obstacle in the trade to put a stamp on her work with difference and quality; being the sewing the essence of her life to make garments and see its practical use in men and women of the country.
Proud of combining skill, creativity and precision to transform fabrics into unique garments adapted to diverse social economic scenarios according to state clients, Gladis Torres relives her past, being a heroine of her work with countless recognitions in her service record.
Her 18 years as delegate of the People’s Power, once she said goodbye to sewing in the “Rodolfo Rodriguez”, is an art to dress also her long journey of stitches, leaving her footprints in the humanity she represents.
With hugs and congratulations, this octogenarian woman from the village of Maffo, feels satisfaction for the duty fulfilled in the sewing trade, also committed to her people for whom she works tirelessly day and night, similar to her labor contribution in her honorable textile garment factory.
