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There are dates that mark and leave their deep imprint on the memory and hearts of those who live them. Black days in which the Sun does not shine and which leave an indelible memory forever. September 11 is marked by the remembrance of the fear and horror experienced on a day like today.
Many anecdotes remained alive in the people from Biran on Lina Ruz Gonzalez, much more than the mother of Fidel and Raul Castro Ruz, truly of all the people around.
This August 1st, the radio station CMKO is celebrating its 82nd anniversary in the service of the people, an event that serves as a challenge and a renewed commitment for its workers who have known how to maintain the purposes that encouraged its owner and founder Manuel Angulo Farrán.
The day of the death of Frank País García and Raúl Pujol was chosen as a symbolic date to honour the more than 20,000 Cubans who lost their lives in the attempt to overthrow Batista.
The social composition of the revolutionary movement is made evident in the fact that the Cuban people were politically prepared and full of patriotic fervor in 1953
There are hundreds of places in Cuba that if they could talk would tell those extraordinary stories they witnessed. And without a doubt, La Granjita Siboney would be one of them.
It was by chance that on June 14, but from different years, two great men of our history were born, Major General Antonio Maceo Grajales and Commander Ernesto Che Guevara.
A shot from the rifle of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at dawn on May 28, 1957, was the signal agreed to begin the battle against the Uvero barracks, the first major confrontation between the incipient Rebel Army and a garrison of tyranny Batistiana
In an unfinished letter to his friend Manuel Mercado, after his political testament, written on May 18, 1895, on the eve of his fall in combat in Dos Ríos, the National Hero of Cuba, José Martí, clearly expressed his commitment to the Fatherland when he said:
Every May 17th the Day of the Peasant is commemorated in Cuba, and there are many reasons that justify the election of that date for the celebration.
When Armando Hart Dávalos described Celia Sánchez Manduley as "the most indigenous flower of the Revolution", he was not doing a simple compliment. It was an exact assessment of that revolutionary example born on May 9, 1920 in Media Luna, the old province of Oriente.
This April 19 has a very special meaning for the Cuban people. The anniversary of the Victory of Playa Girón will be commemorated and the new president of the Council of State and Ministers will be presented, elected by the 604 deputies to the Parliament who exercised the secret and direct vote in the constituent session of the National Assembly of Popular Power for its ninth legislature.
