Celia Esther Sánchez Manduley was born in the sugar town of Media Luna, in the house that in 1913 Dr. Manuel Sánchez Silveira bought when she married Acacia Manduley and where her nine children were born. There Celia lived with her family for 20 years. In 1940 she moved to Pilón with her father where… Continue Reading »
During the celebration of the 144th anniversary of the founding of the hermitage of Monserrat in Matanzas, the specialists of the Provincial Historical Archive found a book of visitor records dating from the year 19º5. The book was enabled since that year, but began to be used in 19º7, when the first signatures registered in… Continue Reading »
One of the greatest acts of cruelty in the Batista dictatorship was the murder, after horrific torture, of fighters Lydia Doce and Clodomira Acosta. September 12th, 1958 was a dark day for these two humble Cuban women. Dozens of minions, mounted in patrol cars, were led by an informer, to a building on Rita… Continue Reading »
The Pact of Mexico, also known as the Letter of Mexico, was signed in this Aztec country on August 30th, 1956 between leaders of the July 26 Movement and the Revolutionary Directory. With this, plans were coordinated to take an expedition to Cuba and start guerrilla warfare in the mountains with the support of an… Continue Reading »
Young Matanzas who, although they already comb gray hair and walk with a much slower pace, retain the energy and the faculties to continue the educational-educational work, celebrated the 59th anniversary of their graduation as Volunteer Teachers. Act occurred on August 29, but from 1960, at the Amadeo Roldán Theater. A million illiterates, 600 thousand… 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 »
Sitting on the balcony of his house, Modesto Martín Díaz Díaz told me that hidden in a ship he arrived in the land of Bolívar, exiled before the constant persecution of the minions of Fulgencio Batista, because the clerk of Club 66 in the street of the Middle of Matanzas He was a participant in… Continue Reading »
In recognition of his decisive contributions to the strengthening of national identity, historian Clara Enma Chávez Álvarez, composer and choral director Zelaida Menéndez Montero and musician Carlos Hudson Leonard received the Distinction for Cuban Culture in a ceremony held at the Concert Hall José White, from the city of Matanzas. The vice minister… Continue Reading »
Matanzas, rich honeycomb for its cultural honeys. On heritage routes the provincial museum, to make the summer most meritorious day, the walker gives history, and every single ride while inviting to recess, communicates memory.
The Cuban Apostle, José Martí, once said that men walk in two camps, those that love and found and those that hate and destroy, so it is easy to take advantage of the time of our walk through the world and to follow the good works, those that love, or bad ones, those that hate… Continue Reading »
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