Camaguey, Aug 3.- Colonel Orlando Cardoso Villavicencio, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, is working on his sixth literary work, a book dealing with topics of Cuba’s contemporary society.

He has temporarily taken a break in the writing of this novel, now in its fifth chapter, because he is fully working on a sustainable agriculture project held in the municipality of Najasa, in the eastern province of Camagüey.

This experience will enrich some scene of my novel, he commented. Unlike some writers that avoid treating topics related to contemporary Cuba, from a social viewpoint, the officer of the Revolutionary Armed Forces assures that he is not biased to do it.

We have to do it from the critical but realistic point of view, noted Villavicencio. He has also written Wendy and the Duke Pedro, (children’s literature), Love and Sword, (adventure), and Challenge to Solitude, which is a testimony of his nearly 11 years of imprisonment in Somali jails.

According to this author, the ideas he has developed in literature emerged during the long period he served in prison. Cardoso Villavicencio (Camagüey, 1957), was captured on January 22, 1978 in Ethiopia while he was in that African country accomplishing an internationalist mission.

Villavicencio was the only one survivor of an ambush and remained the following 1o years and seven moths as a prisoner in Somalia.

In 25 chapters, Challenge to Solitude, his third literary creation, the Cuban Hero narrates the heart-rending and stretched experience he lived in the Horn of Africa. (Lucilo Tejera Diáz/AIN)