News from Contramaestre, Cuba and the World
His stature grows bigger with each passing minute. They feared him alive without knowing that he would cause them much more fear after his death. The soldiers thirsty for blood …
Ernesto Che Guevara will ever live Read More
Maffo embraces you today with pride and patriotic feeling, remembering your birth in a land that longs for your presence, your eternal light. Olo was the name your parents gave …
On the trail of Olo Pantoja Read More
What a man to love his homeland and his fellow men with demonstrated humility! The gift of music in the soul and words to preserve the combats, the efforts, the …
Juan Almeida, a man with a deep and versatile imprint Read More
Contramaestre was the birthplace of a craftsman who became a symbol of the homeland, a paradigm of courage and dignity, a mambi of all times, Juan Fajardo Vega. Guayabal, his …
Juan Fajardo Vega in the sublime altar of the heroes Read More
Every August in Cuba grows to catch men who are born in instants of life, like Fidel Castro, to keep the flame that lights the universe with his ideals and …
Paying tribute to a man lighting up the universe Read More
The purity of Romárico Cordero’s spirit of rebellion remains intact in Ventas de Casanova, where gratitude is still perpetual, remembering the birth of a peasant leader who gave himself body …
Romárico Cordero, a living example Read More
The last day of July becomes sad for those, like Eusebio Leal, who have always had the figure of a man as an example and guide, that mortal who returned …
Eusebio Leal left an immortal footprint Read More
On July 30, 1957, Frank País García, the leader of the 26th of July Movement in El Llano, was assassinated in his native Santiago de Cuba; and a year later, …
Cuba will always honor its martyrs Read More
July 18 returns and the world evokes, Nelson Mandela, a leader of renown, of deeds and convictions; a man who has become a legend that the universe admires for his …
Mandela: a man of glory Read More
Cuba has a history that dates back more than 500 years, and a prehistory that dates back some 10,000 years before the present. Of the latter, the little we know …
Cuban Historian’s Day, July 1 Read More