By Jorge Wejebe Cobo/ ACN.
In May 1962, a high-level delegation sent by the premier of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, arrived in Havana in the strictest secrecy, in order to communicate information from the KGB to the Cuban leadership about the preparations of the United States to invade Cuba. to the Island in the coming months, and the proposal to install Soviet nuclear rockets in the national territory for the defense of the country.
The brave statement of self-defense pronounced by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz on October 16, 1953, known worldwide as History Will Absolve Me, converted the prisoners tried for the assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26 of that year, from accused to accusers.
The brave statement of self-defense pronounced by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz on October 16, 1953, known worldwide as History Will Absolve Me, converted the prisoners tried for the assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26 of that year, from accused to accusers.
By indications of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, president of the National Bank of Cuba, Law No. 891 referring to the nationalization of the Banks was elaborated and proposed, approved by the Council of Ministers on October 13, 1960, “with the objective of definitively liquidate the economic power of the privileged interests that conspired against the people” and to guarantee that the banking function would only be carried out by the State as the only way to exercise the economic sovereignty of the nation.
By Martha Gómez Ferrals/ ACN.
The slogan of independence or death was heard for the first time in Cuba on October 10, 1868, the day on which the patriotic lawyer from Bayamo, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, began the first war against Spanish rule and made his slaves free men and women. from the Demajagua sugar mill, which he owned in the jurisdiction of Manzanillo.
Che’s footprint is in Camagüey, as in Cuba and much of the world. His legend is visible, above all, in the industrial development executed in the province after the triumph of the Revolution, but even more so in the strength of his example.
By Jorge Wejebe Cobo / ACN
It was the night of October 18, 1967 and in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana a huge crowd attended the Solemn Evening for the fall in combat of Che, while the poet Nicolás Guillen read his poem "Che Commander, friend", that in his voice reverberated before a respectful silence such as had never been known before:
On October 6, 1976, a crime against humanity deeply affected the people of Cuba: the blowing up of a civil aeronautics plane in which 73 people were travelling, including the victorious and youthful national fencing team that was returning home with all laurels, for his successful participation in the Central American and Caribbean Championship, held in Caracas, Venezuela.
At this stage of the journey, there is not much left to say about the Family Code. Since that commission of experts accumulated sleepless nights to design family legislation that resembled our reality, we had months to study it, criticize it, improve it. So it was.
"I am as I am", says the lyrics of the song of a well-known troubadour and perhaps it is the simplest way to explain that everyone can be unique and different, although at the same time similar to many others.
Just a few days separate us from the celebration of the popular referendum of the Families Code, next September 25. The road to here has been long, and the reflection of struggles, differences, dialogues and plural realities. It is, however, a road that far from ending, begins.
Cubans will live a momentous moment on the 25th, when the referendum will be held to approve the new Family Code, which is updated in line with the transformations of Antillean society during the last 47 years.