In 1971, making a short turnabout in her career as a comedian, Carbia became the leading lady of the soap opera telenovela broadcast by WAPA-TV "El Silencio Nos Condena" ("Our Silence Condemns Us"), opposite Cuban leading man Eliseo Pereira. As the 1970s came about, there was an actors' strike in WAPA-TV, and the whole cast of comedians of Tommy Muñiz Productions, to which Awilda belonged, created a new company, called ASTRA. Together, they produced a different television comedy series called "Ahí Va Eso" ("There it Goes"), which was telecast by Rikavision, channel 7, then WRIK-TV.