Fidel
Soldado de las Ideas
This May 19, set to take place is a gigantic camp-out of youth at historic sites, to honor Cuba’s national hero José Martí on the 122nd anniversary of his death in combat.
Cajobabo Beach, in Guantánamo; El Abra farm, on the Isle of Youth; and
Dos Ríos, in the province of Granma where Martí met his death May 19, 1895, are some of the sites chosen for the events, according to Yusuam Palacios Ortega, president of the Martí Youth Movement (MJM).
Maritza relates every story about Celia as if she had lived it herself. And the beautiful wooden house is her greatest pride, made clear as she recalls the moment Fidel decided that the national museum dedicated to "the most authentic flower of the Revolution" would be established here.
"I heard that the Comandante said: Let it be in Media Luna! Ay, you can't imagine the emotion, hearing that our greatest dream, that these country girls had struggled for, would come true."
The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, received today the honorary doctorate in economics of the University of Havana, by the rector of that institution, Gustavo Cobreiro.
The book Fidel: El hombre que se atrevió a vencer (Fidel: The Man Who Dared to Win), by the Mexican writer Pablo Moctezuma, was reportedly presented today at Azcapotzalco International Book Fair, the city''s delegation.
Moctezuma said that he wrote the text for the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.
On May 4, Rafael Correa Delgado, President of Ecuador, paid tribute to Cuba’s National Hero José Martí and Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro, at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in the city of Santiago de Cuba.
Accompanied by Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, the Ecuadoran President laid a bouquet of white roses before José Martí’s mausoleum and a floral wreath at the monument where the ashes of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution remain.
Specialists and authorities in Iran and Cuba held talks in this capital to determine the possibilities and conditions for expanding bilateral collaboration in the medical-scientific field, a diplomatic source announced today.
The contacts began on April 28 with the arrival in Tehran of a delegation from the Finlay Institute of Vaccines that paid a working visit in response to an invitation from the Pasteur Institute of Iran, indicated a note from the Cuban embassy here.
Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa starts an official visit today to Cuba during which he will render tribute to the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro, he is to be invested with several important distinctions and will tour centers of interest in the country.
Correa's stay starts in Santiago de Cuba, where he will render tribute to Fidel Castro before the monolith rock that guards the ashes of the leader at the cemetery of Santa Ifigenia.
Today May 1, a march celebrating International Workers Day is taking place in Havana, with Army General Raúl Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, on hand.
Fifty thousand youth led the parade of workers in the capital on May Day which was dedicated to them this year, as the present and future of the homeland.
Since its creation in 1988 by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, some 977,937 patients have been treated at the Ramón Pando Ferrer Ophthalmology Institute’s Ocular Microsurgery Center (CMO) in Havana.
During the inauguration of the Ninth National Cataracts Workshop, Dr. Eneyda de la Caridad Pérez Candelaria MSc, who has been leading the CMO since 2007, reported that 275,773 surgeries have been performed over almost three decades, 195,000 of which correspond to cataracts procedures.
The great friend of Fidel Castro, Antonio ''El Cuate'' del Conde, facilitator of the Granma expedition, requested today to march next May Day with the flags hoisted by Fidel Castro and Nicolás Maduro.
During an International Seminar of Tribute to Commander Fidel Castro, which began yesterday in Acapulco, he assured Prensa Latina that both Fidelist philosophical thought and the Bolivarian and Chavista revolution are currently of vital importance to the Latin American peoples.
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