News from Contramaestre, Cuba and the World
Fifty-five years have passed since 1968, when Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz officially opened the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Dam, located in the Contramaestre River basin. It took four …
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Dam 55 years after its opening Read More
Cuba hogs today one of its illustrious sons, to that man of whom it will always be necessary to speak with capital letters Armando Hart Dávalos. The homeland embraces him …
Armando Hart, the indispensable of all times Read More
Fidel was right. Children always conquer the heart, they capture the soul. Their smile, their sincere language and their joyful look, is the most beautiful gift of childhood in our …
Children: Heart conquerors Read More
On May 17, 1959, Fidel signed the first Agrarian Reform Law in the command of La Plata. Legislation that marked the political, economic and social path of the (Cuban) Revolution. …
Contramaestre farmers remember Fidel on their day Read More
A little more than 16 months of captivity had passed, during which Fidel and the other Moncada assailants suffered, without faltering, all kinds of humiliations. For Fidel, prison turned out …
The Moncada assailants are released from prison Read More
Media Luna revives today the arrival of a star that bathes the dawn with a fragrance that inspires the song of the poets, because your name is all poetry, Celia …
Celia, the eternal flower of the Homeland Read More
Fidel welcomed his proletarian people illuminated by a light that anticipated the dawn. At eight o’clock sharp in Contramaestre the concept of Revolution immortalized by the Commander in Chief gave …
May 1st Parade in Contramaestre evoked Fidel Castro Read More
Let’s answer with iron and fire! It was the voice of attack against the invasion of mercenary troops. The capacity for resistance had been proven; courage was in abundance. The …
Bay of Pigs again with the strength of reasons and ideas Read More
In the early morning of April 17, 1961 a counterrevolutionary brigade, composed of 500 men, trained and transported by the US, arrived in the Zapata Swamp, south of Matanzas in …
Contramaestre also defended the homeland at the Bay of Pigs Read More
On April 16, 1961, while speaking at the mourning farewell ceremony for those who had fallen as a result of an artful attack by planes from abroad on several Cuban …
The Declaration of the socialist character of the Cuban Revolution Read More