I remember those days as a party, the properly ironed uniform and my best hair ornaments. She would go to visit Camilo and for her she always chose the most beautiful flower. A procession of uniformed children advanced towards the banks of the San Juan River. The crowd remembered a tragic event, however, I shared… Continue Reading »
Antonio Guiteras Holmes was born on November 22nd, 1906 in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States, of Cuban father and American mother, Calixto Guiteras and María Teresa Holmes. He moved to Cuba at the age of seven. He graduated as a bachelor and land surveyor in 1924 in Pinar del Río. It maintains a combative attitude, of… Continue Reading »
Félix Varela y Morales, also known as Father Varela, was born in Havana on November 20th, 1788. He was a Cuban priest, teacher, writer, philosopher and politician who had an important performance in intellectual, political and religious life in the Cuba from the first half of the 19th century. He was the first who taught… Continue Reading »
A day like today, October 20th, but from 1927, Abel Santamaría Cuadrado was born in Encrucijada, former province of Las Villas. Son of Benigno Santamaría Vázquez, a Galician from the province of Orense who had emigrated to Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century, and Joaquina Cuadrado, also a Spanish emigrant from Salamanca, whom… Continue Reading »
Today, October 19th, but from 1919, Francisco González Cueto was born in the old neighborhood of Pueblo Nuevo, in Havana, known by family and friends as Paquito; He was the youngest of six brothers. So that Paquito could study his mother, he works in a shoe store or in a cigar factory, facing daily the… Continue Reading »
The town of the province of Matanzas remembers this September 11 the tenth anniversary of the death of one of the most important men of the revolutionary process: the Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque. A tribute of remembrance, affection and respect is paid to this brave man who in the battle called not… Continue Reading »
There are men who leave imperishable traces in their contemporaries and are transmitted to the later batches of life as a legacy of ideas to act for a better country. Born in the humblest of families, otherwise numerous, he had to be welcomed into another home, that of his godfather. His first studies were in… Continue Reading »
There are men who leave imperishable traces in their contemporaries and are transmitted to the later batches of life as a legacy of ideas to act for a better country. Born in the humblest of families, otherwise numerous, he had to be welcomed into another home, that of his godfather. His first studies were in… Continue Reading »
“Of the best you fell first by the law of destiny. Your enemies of yesterday admire you today, honor and are friends of your country. ” Thus, one can read on one of the sides of the monument that in marble holds the immortal figure of Domingo Mujica Carratalá located in the central park that… Continue Reading »
In solemn ceremony the Matanzas paid tribute to Frank País García and Raúl Pujols Arencibia on July 30th on the 62nd anniversary of their vile murder and remembered the martyrs of the Revolution, who founded the seed of the sovereignty and independence of the Cuba of today. With the purpose of commemorating the event,… Continue Reading »
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