Things have changed since then. Cuban history features Sierra Maestra as the mountains where, in the late 1950s, Fidel Castro, Ch Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and other rebels planned their guerrilla actions against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Today, there is one doctor for every 800 rural people. Schools are free and have been developed in the most remote places of the Sierra Maestra, an area of 451 square kilometres has become a National Park. Two channels of national TV and one regional TV channel can be tuned in, though there are still blackout areas because of the topography of the zone.
Television contributes to homogenisation of cultures .
The provincial government provided the land and the building, while the ICRT took in its hands the responsibility of training the staff. After the initial investment phase, the ANAP became the back-up organisation. Serrana is important in many senses. First, it is a symbol for independent communication in a country where media is largely centralised by the government. It is only in recent years with the surfacing of NGOs and small private businesses that the shape of communication began to change.