Preparing for the Moncada assault, Fidel assigned Abel the mission of taking the Saturnino Lora Hospital, with the intention of protecting his second in command, who nonetheless was captured, tortured, and murdered by the dictatorship's henchmen, at 25 years of age
july 24, 2018@ 09:07:03 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
Haydée Santamaría, one of the first women to join the guerilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra and founder of the Casa de las Americas, remembered the Moncada’s horrors until the last day of her life, July 28, 1980, but these memories only strengthened her resolve
july 31, 2020@ 15:07:28 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
The fact that the Cuban people were politically prepared and full of patriotic fervor in 1953 is made evident in the social composition of the revolutionary movement
july 25, 2018@ 09:07:30 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
"With a bloody human eye in his hands, a sergeant and several men showed up at the dark cell where Melba Hernandez and Haydée Santamaria were held
july 24, 2020@ 13:07:58 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
The Vietnamese victory was a great blow to U.S. imperialism and the world's reactionary forces
april 6, 2018@ 15:04:25 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
This May 15 marks the 65th anniversary of Fidel and his fellow Moncada prisoners release from the Model Prison on Isle of Pines
may 15, 2020@ 10:05:33 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
The family doctor program, launched 35 years ago in the Sierra Maestra, became one of Cuba’s most important healthcare projects, and an antecedent to the medical brigades that offer their services around the world
january 14, 2019@ 16:01:23 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
The seat to the right of Díaz-Canel, elected President of the Councils of State and Ministers on April 19, only appeared to be empty, just as it had during Raúl’s term in office
april 25, 2018@ 15:04:02 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez
Above is an excerpt from a poem that Vietnam’s founder, Ho Chi Minh, wrote in prison, entitled “A game of chess.” And this was his approach to life, since the days when, only an adolescent using the name Ba, he signed up to work in the kitchen on a French ship.
september 10, 2020@ 10:09:05 | Marta Rojas Rodríguez