Many people still remember that January 11, 1980, 38 years ago, when the media reported, for Cuba and the world, of the physical disappearance of an outstanding, loyal and hardworking woman, Celia Esther de los Desamparados Sánchez Manduley, or Celia, as she was held very deep in the hearts of her people.
On January 24, 1978, the System of Culture Houses in Cuba was created from the Ministerial Resolution number 8 issued by Armando Hart Dávalos, who at the time was Minister of Culture.
For many people of the world, what Cuba has achieved in its first 59 years of Revolution is a dream that is still unattainable, an aspiration that grows to the extent that its example overflows in everyday reality.
The panel of judges of the 2017 National Prize of Cultural Heritage for Life Achievement, which was made up of doctors Eusebio Leal Spengler, José Linares Ferrera, Daniel Taboada Espiniella, Isabel Rigol Savio and Jesús Gómez Cairo, decided to give the award to the architect Iran Millán Cuétara.
From his first cry on December 12, 1901, he was predestined to retrace his steps in defense of Spanish roots and just causes, although such efforts forced him to travel from one side of the world to the other. Just in December 1936, the event would occur.
It has been 95 years since that December 20, 1922, when the Student University Federation (FEU) of Cuba was founded, which continues without interruption breaking into the present with all the strength and vitality of the students it brings together.
Cinco Palmas is a town in the Media Luna municipality in Granma province. On December 18, 1956, there was a meeting between the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and the president of the Councils of State and Ministers RaĂşl Castro. How many rifles do you bring? Asks Fidel, to which RaĂşl answers: five, and two that I have are seven! Now we win the war!
José Pedro Roig lived in Vedado, Havana in 1914. After his death, the large and elegant mansion passed into the hands of the heirs of his family. As early as 1936, the house belonged to Las Damas Isabelinas de Cuba (a Cultural Association of the Catholic Church). Since then, the home was the scene of varied cultural activities and soon its space was extended by annexing the plot of land of a neighboring house.
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