José Guillermo Moncada, Major General "Guillermón" Moncada, fought in all three Cuban wars for independence. Famous for his bravery, principles, and revolutionary intransigence, he died of tuberculosis on April 5, 1895, unyielding, for not even captivity ever managed to break him.
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April 1967 was a very difficult month for Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara's guerrilla movement in Bolivia. That month, two of its key figures, Cuban captains Jesús Suárez Gayol and Eliseo Reyes Rodríguez, fell in combat against the dictatorial army, which had strong support from the United States.
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The National Printing Office of Cuba was one of the first institutions created by the Revolution to make the best works of world culture available to all the people, just three months after the revolutionary triumph of January 1, 1959.
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Sometimes when we think of an intellectual of universal stature, we imagine only a person of thought, but Juan Marinello Vidaurreta was a communist revolutionary linked to popular struggles from his youth. He suffered imprisonment, exile, and persecution, and remained faithful to his ideals until his death.
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Tomás Romay will have been dead for 177 years this March 30th, but Cubans keep him very much in mind during these times of pandemic, remembering that he was the one who introduced smallpox vaccination to our country and, due to his preventative measures, is considered the first national hygienist.
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The organs of State Security, with the decisive support of the people and as an integral part of them, have systematically defeated, since March 26, 1959, the subversive plans, attacks, acts of sabotage, and other actions that the United States orchestrated over these 67 years to overthrow the Cuban revolutionary process.
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The long train rumbled with the music, songs, and joy of some five hundred young rebels who boarded along the way, accompanied by celebrations in each municipality along the journey to Havana. No one felt the hours pass, so immersed were they in the pride of being part of their organization's First Congress.
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Many young people will know his name because of the park bearing his name at the corner of Galeano and Reina streets, where he printed *History Will Absolve Me* in his small printing press. But Sergio González López, “El Curita” (The Little Priest), was much more than that—a true nightmare for the Batista dictatorship, and nothing could break his resolve.
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The first civic action led by Rubén Martínez Villena is historically known as the Protest of the Thirteen and marks the rebirth of national consciousness by linking a generation of intellectuals with the popular struggles against the rampant corruption in the Cuban Republic.
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