Cuba Havana (The Museum of the Revolution) Part 3
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The Museum of the Revolution:
The Museum of the Revolution (Spanish: Museo de la Revolución) is a museum located in the Old Havana section of Havana, Cuba. The museum is housed in what was the Presidential Palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista. It became the Museum of the Revolution during the years following the Cuban revolution.
The former Presidential Palace was designed by the Cuban architect Carlos Maruri and the Belgian architect Paul Belau and was inaugurated in 1920 by President Mario García Menocal. It remained the Presidential Palace until 1959. The building has Neo-Classical elements, and was decorated by Tiffany & Co. of New York.
The museum's Cuban history exhibits are largely devoted to the period of the revolutionary war of the 1950s and to the country's post-1959 history. Portions of the museum are also devoted to pre-revolutionary Cuba, including its War of Independence waged against Spain.
Behind the building lies the Granma Memorial, a large glass enclosure which houses the Granma, the yacht which took Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba for the revolution. Around the Granma an SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile of the type that shot down a U.S. Lockheed U-2 spyplane during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the engine of the U-2 airplane is displayed. There are also various vehicles and tanks used in the revolution displayed. Near the museum is located an SU-100, a Soviet tank destroyer.
(Revolution Square):
Plaza de la Revolución (Revolution Square) is a municipality (or borough) and a square in Havana, Cuba.
The municipality, one of the 15 forming the city, stretches from the square down to the sea at the Malecón and includes the Vedado district.
The Plaza is 31st largest city square in the world (largest city squares), measuring 72000 square meters.
The square is notable as being where many political rallies take place and Fidel Castro and other political figures address Cubans. Fidel Castro has addressed more than a million Cubans on many important occasions, such as 1 May and 26 July each year.
The square is dominated by the José Martí Memorial, which features a 109 m (358 ft) tall tower and an 18 m (59 ft) statue. The National Library, many government ministries, and other buildings are located in and around the Plaza. Located behind the memorial are the closely guarded offices of former President Fidel Castro. Opposite the memorial on the far side of the square is the famous Che Guevara image with his well known slogan of Hasta la Victoria Siempre (Until the Everlasting Victory, Always) that identifies the Ministry of the Interior building.
Construction of the square and the José Martí monument commenced during the Presidency of Fulgencio Batista. The square and the memorial were completed in 1959 (the year Fidel Castro came to power). It was originally called Plaza Cívica (Civic Square). After the Cuban Revolution (1959), it was renamed Plaza de la Revolución or Revolution Square. An elevator allows access the top of the memorial, at 109 m one the tallest points in the city.
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has given Cuba its most complete showcase of cultural exh
18 July 2001
1. Reflection in window of Fidel Castro with Moraima Clavijo, director of new Fine Arts Museum
2. Wide of inauguration ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba: Not only are they (the art works) not for sale, they will be defended with the blood of our people. The people will lay down their lives before these works of art are sold.''
14 September 2001
4. Various of entrance hall of museum
5. Various of pottery exhibits
6. Two girls looking at an ancient statue
7. Students studying a sculpture
8. Museum sign indicating position of different European exhibits
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luz Merino Acosta, Sub Director of the Museum of Fine Arts: The exhibition of European schools of art is a result of the relationships that our specialists and curators established when this museum, while semi-closed, attempted to survive, which it managed to do.
10. Canaletto painting showing Chelsea hospital, River Thames, London
11. Closer pan along picture
12. Portrait by Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla Bastida
13. Various of people looking at paintings by Sorolla
14. Paintings
15. People looking at paintings
16. Various of stain glass window exhibits
17. Various of art
CUBA'S TREASURE TROVE OF ART OPENS AGAIN
The re-opening of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana has given Cuba its most complete showcase of cultural exhibits.
The restoration of the three-building complex, which houses nearly 50 thousand works dating from ancient Egypt through to contemporary Cuba, cost an estimated 14.5 (m) million U-S dollars.
An international art collection, made up of American, European and Latin American art, hangs in the Asturian Centre.
Much of it came from private collections left behind by wealthy families who fled Cuba soon after the 1959 revolution.
Works that once belonged to members of former dictator Fulgencio Batista's government are also on show.
Moraima Clavijo, the museum's director, said contact remained with some of the surviving families.
The estimated total value of the collection has been put at 600 (m) million U-S dollars, and Cubans will pay just five US cents to see it.
This is the first time since the museum closed in 1996 for renovation that Cubans have had access to all the works on display.
The museum is also putting to use expertise it has acquired in art restoration and history as a result of showing works of art abroad while the museum itself was closed for renovation.
Interest from abroad in the works of art here has been intense.
The Cuban exile community has claimed that works of art were sold during Cuba's economic crisis in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The British have long sought to acquire half a painting by Antonio Canaletto, depicting Chelsea Hospital and the River Thames, and unite it with the other half currently in London.
In the past, reports say Britain has offered several million US dollars for the work, but Castro has declared this art is not for sale.
The museum has many surprises in its little known collection. It claims to be one of very few museums in Latin America with a permanent exhibition of 18th and 19th century art from the United States - Cuba's traditional adversary.
And as Cuba continues to develop tourism - its largest foreign currency industry - in order to survive, the museum represents a significant new attraction.
Visitors to Havana now have access to a unique collection of international renown.
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La Habana Cruize 3, El Centro Cuba
April 2012 we take a cruise around downtown Havana. See the Auto museum around you and cruize by turn of the century Train Bone yard in the middle of it all. Pretty Surreal! Also see the former government building made into a Museum of Art and Sciences.
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Havana, Cuba Before the Revolution 27 photos
Americans can’t travel to Cuba, but tourists from other parts of the world—mostly Europe and Canada—visit the island for its beaches, culture, Spanish colonial architecture and vintage American cars. They buy art and Che Guevara souvenirs in outdoor markets and drink beer in newly restored plazas, where musicians play Buena Vista Social Club tunes in a constant loop.
In some places, the country appears stuck in its pre-revolutionary past. The famous Hotel Nacional displays photographs of mobsters and celebrity guests. La Tropicana still features a nightly cabaret. And many Hemingway fans stop at La Floridita, one of his favorite haunts, to slurp down overpriced rum cocktails.
For many tourists, 1950s Cuba holds romantic appeal. Last year, more than two million people visited the island, bringing in revenues of $2.4 billion, according to the Cuban government. The tourism industry has saved Cuba from economic ruin more than once—most recently after the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s. But tourism has provoked a tension between the sultry image paradise travelers expect to find and the country’s steadfast desire to remain independent. In the years leading up to the Socialist Revolution, the façade came crashing down.
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Despite being within easy reach of Florida and the Bahamas, #Cuba exists in a time and space all its own.
Explore Cuba’s capital, Havana, a city preserved by forts, a five-mile seawall, and an imposed embargo, which held back the excesses of the 20th century for over 50 years. Havana’s lure can be hard to resist, but a #vacation in Cuba can offer so much more beyond the seductive lights of its capital. In Cuba, a long sandy beach is never far away.
Sometimes it’s hard to know whether Cuba is awakening to the world, or if the world is awakening to Cuba. Whatever your politics, it's easy to admire this island nation that has proudly gone its own way. Cuba may still have one foot firmly in the past, but as the world tumbles towards tomorrow, we can be thankful for the many things it has not let go.
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Fijian Prime Minister visits Colonia Havana in Cuba.
Fijian Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama this morning visited the Colonial Havana museum to learn more about Cuba’s history.
Among other artifacts housed at the museum are materials that were discovered by ancestral Cubans thousands of years ago.
Prime Minister Bainimarama also took the time to meet with locals.
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Havana, Cuba March 2019
This is a condensed, 100% handheld cell phone video. It is a public version of the last video that I posted but decided to make private. I traveled with family and friends aboard the the Carnival Paradise from Tampa, FL. to Havana, Cuba for the day. My Grandfather fled Cuba before the Castro era and established his roots and raised his family in Key West. For most of my life I lived 90 miles away and couldn't pass up a chance to go. It is a beautiful island with beautiful people but a Government that refuses change. Please don't hesitate to share away.
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Benedict XVI meets with Raul Castro at the Revolutionary Palace in Havana
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구시가지에서 마지막으로 나는 파나마 대통령궁을 찾아갔다. 이렇게 빈민촌이 바라다 보이는 곳에 대통령궁 이 자리 잡고 있었다. 대통령궁은 관광객들에게 개방되어 있어 몇 가지 확인 절차만 거치면 누구든 쉽게 들어갈 수 있다. 1673년 스페인 정부에 의해 지어진 이 건 물은 학교, 법원, 국립 은행 본부 등 다양한 용도로 사용되다가, 1903년 독립 이후 대통령 집무실로 사용되고 있다고 한다. 그런데 대통령궁에서 나를 처음 맞이한 것은 다름 아닌 백로였다. 두 마리의 백로가 대통령궁에서 우아한 자태로 노닐고 있는 것이었다. 대통령궁 안으로 들어서자 또 한 마리의 백로가 눈에 띄었다. 마치 이 녀석들이 대통령궁의 주인인 것처럼 보일 지경이다. “파나마 시인 리카르도 미로가 1922년 당시 대통령 벨라시오 뽀라스에게 몇 쌍의 흰 백로를 선물했는데, 그 이후로 대통령궁이 ‘백로의 궁전’이라고 불리게 되었습니다. 현재 이곳에는 흰 백로와 남아프리카산 회색 백로가 살고 있습니다.” 백로의 궁전이라 불린다니. 그러니까 이 녀석들이 대통령궁의 마스코트인 셈이다. 대통령궁 사람들과 한 식구처럼 지내는 백로의 모습이 참 평화로워 보였다. 나는 파나마 대통령이 외빈을 맞이하고 의전 행사를 치루는 접견실로 들어갔다. 이 자리가 대통령이 앉는 곳이라고 하니 왠지 모를 경외감이 든다. 하지만 빈민촌과 이웃하고 백로가 자유로이 노니는 이곳 대통령궁이 나는 한없이 정감 있게 느껴진다.
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Finally, in the old town I visited the presidential palace in Panama. So slums was holding the presidential palace is situated overlooking. Anyone can enter the Presidential Palace in just a few easy verification procedures it has been opened to tourists. Built in 1673 by the Spanish Government is Gun doedaga water used in schools, the courts, the National Bank headquarters for various purposes such as, since independence in 1903 and that used in the Oval Office. But what greeted me was a backlog in the first presidential palace rather than differences. The backlog of the two was that nonilgo elegant appearance, at the Presidential Palace. Upon entering backlog of another one that stood out in the presidential palace. These guys seem like a horribly president palace owners. Panamanian poet Ricardo Miro has had several pairs of white egret gifts to please the president at the time Pokettokoirumattoresu Las Bela 1922, the presidential palace thereafter became known as Palace of the backlog. Here there lived a white egret and heron gray mountain South. Backlog of palace called you. So this guy is a sense that the president palace mascot. The appearance of the backlog of people staying as the presidential palace and one family was indeed peaceful. I went to the Panamanian president has greeted a Foreigner Guests sitting room and pay for ceremonial events. This place is where do you say the President sat in awe for some reason you do not know the costs. But slums and neighbors, and backlog is freely Noni Presidential Palace here this emotion I felt so infinitely.
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LEBANON: Demonstration by taxi drivers and members of the Confederation of Trade Unions to Mansour Palace, the parliament building, at Museum Crossing between East and West Beirut, protesting the lifting of a subsidy for gasoline and
the economic crisis.
Date Shot: 22.9.87
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Capitalism comes to Cuba with luxury hotel
(28 Jul 2017) LEADIN:
A former Cuban shopping arcade in central Havana has been transformed into a luxury five-star hotel.
For a nation founded on ideals of social equality, the state-run hotel is seen by many as a temple to conspicuous capitalism.
STORYLINE:
In the heart of Havana.... a haven of luxury.
With other sectors declining, Cuba's increasingly important tourism industry is under pressure to change the reputation of its state-run hotels for charging exorbitant prices for rooms and food far below international standards.
The Manzana de Gomez Kempinski bills itself as Cuba's first real five-star hotel, and the brand-name shops around it appear designed to reinforce that.
Rafael Hernández, a political scientist and director of Cuban cultural magazine 'Temas', says the location means that high-end tourists will be able to experience real life in downtown Havana.
This hotel is the most expensive and luxurious of Cuba, the guests of this hotel are not going to live in a hotel that is in an isolated place, disconnected from Cuba, they will live in a place that is in the heart of Havana and in that place, they will have contact with the real Cuban culture.
The Manzana de Gomez mall in the ground floor of the building has become a socio-cultural phenomenon since its opening earlier this year.
Many Cubans wander wide-eyed through its polished-stone passages gazing at the first Cuban branches of luxury brands like L'Occitane, Mont Blanc and Lacoste.
Havana Resident María Elena Corcho says that she is pleased that Cuba is welcoming business, but adds that few ordinary people can afford the items on sale.
For us it is like a museum, we see a lot of good things, but we would have to work a few months to get a product. I think it is a very good option because it is developing in Cuba and maybe at some point we could receive the salary we wanted, but for now most of us can not.
At L'Occitane, en Provence perfume costs US$ 95.20 per bottle and the face cream is US$ 162.40 an ounce.
Elsewhere in the mall a Canon EOS camera is priced at US$ 7,542.01.
''Most of the residents of Old Havana do not buy in any of the numerous hotels that are around the central park, nor in the area of Old Havana around the avenue of the port, the residents of Old Havana buy in other shops, in state stores or buy from private merchants,'' says Hernandez.
Fashion designer and boutique owner Mario Freixas says that most tourists will be put off by exorbitant prices.
''I think there must be prices for everything, but the trend should be average prices because even the national customer or tourist always looks for an economy option, with the exceptions of certain customers that are looking for more exquisite things.''
Back at the hotel guests are surrounded by 5 star luxury, with the most expensive furnishings and facilities.
Hernández says the development will benefit both locals and visitors.
They have the real Cuban society at the door of the hotel. We don't have to show the tourist an artificial society. I think that the greatest attraction of Cuba is the society, it is the Cubans, and that contact between Cubans and hotel guests who are going to walk down the street, as the other guests from other hotels do, it is both good for Cubans as well as for visitors.
Although managed by the Swiss chain Kempinski, the hotel is owned by the Cuban army tourism company, Gaviota.
Gaviota, the military's tourism company, is in the midst of a hotel building spree. The military corporation Cimex, created two decades ago, counts retail stores, auto-rental businesses and even a recording studio among its holdings.
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UK's Prince Charles meets Cuban president
(26 Mar 2019) The UK's Prince Charles was greeted by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and high-level Cuban officials in an official welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana on Monday.
The prince was accompanied by his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and a large delegation of British officials from the UK embassy and the British Foreign Office.
The prince and the Cuban President held brief talks before attending a gala dinner.
The heir to the British throne arrived in Cuba on Sunday and will spend the next two days with visits to historic sites, a solar park, organic farm, biomedical research centre, as well as a meeting with entrepreneurs.
It does not include visits with political dissidents or other critics of Cuba's single-party system - a decision prompting criticism from Cuban exiles.
The visit has caused some controversy in the United States, with Florida politicians urging the royal couple to cancel their visit to Cuba in solidarity with the large exile community in the state.
The Trump Administration has found European and Latin American support for its Venezuela policy but less backing on Cuba, whose government has already withstood a 60-year US embargo without showing any signs of losing its grip on power.
The United Kingdom backs Trump in Venezuela but the British Foreign Office is keen to expand relations with Cuba, and arranged for Prince Charles to extend his Caribbean tour to the island country to shore up relations between the two nations.
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Austrian President visits Cuba
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Havana - 3 March 2016
1. Various of Austrian President Heinz Fischer and his delegation visiting the Revolution Museum in Havana
2. Fischer waving to media
3. Cuban and Austrian flags
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Heinz Fischer, President of Austria: ++ROUGH TRANSLATION++
The cooperation between European nations and the Caribbean and Latin American countries should intensify with agreements and contracts.
5. Fischer behind the podium
6. Audience
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Austrian President Heinz Fischer called for closer ties with Cuba on Thursday on a visit to Havana.
Fischer urged European nations to improve political and economic links with the Caribbean and Latin American region.
He arrived on Wednesday in the Cuban capital, where he and Cuban President Raul Castro discussed bilateral relations.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of bilateral relations between Austria and Cuba.
Fischer is the third leader from a European Union member state to visit Cuba in the past year.
French President Francois Hollande visited Cuba last May and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi traveled to the island in October.
After the official welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution, Castro and Fischer discussed the gradual strengthening of economic and trade relations, and cooperation between Cuba and Austria, as well as international affairs.
Fischer departs the island nation for Colombia later on Thursday on a goodwill tour of Latin America.
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CUBA: ELIAN GONZALEZ - STUDENT RALLY
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Hundreds of Cuban high school students gathered on Friday in Havana's Palace of Conventions, for the latest in an almost daily string of rallies pressing for Elian Gonzalez's return to his homeland.
Cuban president Fidel Castro also attended the rally.
For three months Cuba's communist government has waged a national campaign pressing for the return of six-year-old Elian.
The boy has been staying with his relatives in Miami since being rescued off the coast of Florida at the end of November last year.
In Cuba the fight for the return of Elian Gonzalez has become a symbol of Castro's decades-long ideological war against what he calls the Miami Mafia - Cuban-born Americans who oppose him and his government.
Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, has received strong support by Cuba's government in demanding his parental rights to the child.
The boy's grandmothers have even gone to the U-S to lobby for his return.
And the U-S Immigration and Naturalisation Service (I-N-S) has ruled that Elian should be returned to his father.
But it has not ended there.
The Miami relatives are fighting hard to keep hold of the boy, saying they can give him a better life than he'd have in communist Cuba.
And despite the I-N-S ruling the custody dispute has continued to drag on while the Miami relatives try different legal manoeuvres.
Their latest offensive has seen the release of sworn statements stating the boy's father knew his ex-wife planned to take their son to the U-S.
Statements have also been released made by a specialist in Cuban issues, a psychologist who contends returning Elian to Cuba would cause him psychological harm.
In Cuba, with the full involvement and backing of Fidel Castro and his government, it is as if Elian's return has become a rallying call of the revolution.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
Today is a special day. We could not be here without calling forth the image of a dear friend (Fidel Castro), who in these difficult times has marched with us, in one of the most just battles that our people has ever waged. Without him - without the light cast by his presence - we could not, from this island of revolution, raise our voices once again for the return of the young pioneer, Elian Gonzalez.
SUPER CAPTION: Naomi Rojas Reina, School Student
Elian was found clinging to an inner tube off the Florida coast on November 25 last year.
His mother and ten others drowned in the attempt to flee Cuba.
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Plaza de la Revolución or Revolution Square is a municipality (or borough) and a square in Havana, Cuba. November 2016
The municipality, one of the 15 forming the city, stretches from the square down to the sea at the Malecón and includes the Vedado district.
The Plaza is 31st largest city square in the world, measuring 72,000 square meters.[3]
The square is notable as being where many political rallies take place and Fidel Castro and other political figures address Cubans. Fidel Castro addressed more than a million Cubans on many important occasions, such as 1 May and 26 July each year. Pope John Paul II, during his 1998 first visit by a Pope, and Pope Francis in 2015, held large Masses there during papal visits to Cuba.
The square is dominated by the José Martí Memorial, which features a 109 m (358 ft) tall tower and an 18 m (59 ft) statue. The National Library, many government ministries, and other buildings are located in and around the Plaza. Located behind the memorial is the Palace of the Revolution, the seat of the Cuban government and Communist Party. Opposite the memorial are the offices of the Ministries of the Interior and Communications, whose facades feature matching steel memorials of the two most important deceased heroes of the Cuban Revolution: Che Guevara, with the quotation Hasta la Victoria Siempre (Until the Everlasting Victory, Always) and Camilo Cienfuegos (sometimes mistaken for Fidel Castro), with the quotation Vas bien, Fidel (You're doing fine, Fidel). It is also the site of several cultural institutions.
Construction of the square and the José Martí monument commenced during the Presidency of Fulgencio Batista. The square and the memorial were completed in 1959 (the year Fidel Castro came to power). It was originally called Plaza Cívica (Civic Square). After the Cuban Revolution (1959), it was renamed Plaza de la Revolución or Revolution Square. An elevator allows access the top of the memorial, at 109 m one of the tallest points in the city.
Der Platz ist mit 72 Tausend Quadratmetern[1] der größte innerstädtische Platz Kubas. Hier finden regelmäßig offizielle politische Kundgebungen statt. Fidel Castro sprach hier jährlich zu besonderen Anlässen beispielsweise am 1. Mai oder am 26. Juli vor mehr als einer Million Kubanern.
Der Platz der Revolution wird dominiert durch das José-Martí-Denkmal, bestehend aus einem 109 Meter hohen Turm und einer 18 Meter hohen Statue. Der Turm ist das höchste Bauwerk der Stadt und man kann mit einem Fahrstuhl bis an seine Spitze fahren.
La Plaza de la Revolución es una plaza pública de la ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, una de las más grandes del mundo con 72 mil metros cuadrados.1 Está ubicada en la municipalidad del mismo nombre.
Fue creada en tiempos del presidente Fulgencio Batista y originalmente se la llamó Plaza Cívica, aunque su fama internacional comienza con la Revolución cubana. En ella podemos encontrar el Monumento a José Martí esculpido por Juan José Sicre y frente por frente tenemos el Ministerio del Interior con la conocida imagen del Che Guevara tomada por el fotógrafo Korda hecha un relieve escultórico, obra de Enrique Ávila que dice Hasta la victoria siempre. En 2009 se inauguró la obra (del mismo artista y especificaciones técnicas) a Camilo Cienfuegos, otro gran héroe de la Revolución Cubana.
The former President of Cuba Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 (CST) in the evening of 25 November 2016. His brother, current state leader Raúl Castro, made an announcement about his death on state television.[1] International reactions followed, especially on Twitter. Most reactions were of praise, with the exception of some government officials in the United States. Cuban-Americans in Miami, Florida celebrated the occasion.
Following Castro's death, his brother Raúl Castro announced: According to the will expressed by comrade Fidel, his body will be cremated in the early hours of 26 November 2016.[4]
The casket carrying his ashes will lie in state for Cubans to pay homage to Castro at the José Martí Memorial in Havana on 28 and 29 November with a rally planned at the Plaza de la Revolución for 19:00 on 29 November. From 29 November to 3 December the casket carrying his ashes will travel along a 900 kilometre route to Santiago de Cuba, tracing in reverse the route of the Freedom Caravan of January 1959 in which Castro and his rebels took power. On December 3 at 19:00 a mass gathering will take place at Plaza Antonio Maceo in Santiago de Cuba and the next day, 4 December, the internment of Castro's ashes will occur at Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba, where Cuban national hero José Martí is also buried.
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution Trailer
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”
New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista’s professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In fact, País and Echeverría’s
city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police.
Both País and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see Batista defeated. País was gunned down in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. We will never know what Cuba
would have been like had they survived. This documentary highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping and reshaping of the final historical record.
The film is narrated by Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno.
Support comes from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., promoting and preserving the Arts and Humanities in Indiana.
FRANCE: PARIS: CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
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Savouring his first trip to Paris, Fidel Castro admired the Mona Lisa and Napoleon's tomb today (Tuesday).
But the warm official welcome for the Cuban leader drew criticism, and one presidential candidate called it a scandal.
Back in his customary green fatigues Cuban President Fidel Castro toured the Louvre Museum, accompanied by his former minister of culture.
He lingered at some of the most famous works there, including the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory.
According to museum officials, Castro was curious and very friendly and he showed more interest in the works and the artists than the building and its history.
Even though some French government officials conducted the Cuban president round the capital's principal sights, his visit drew criticism from others, including a presidential candidate who called it a scandal.
Premier Edouard Balladur, one of the two leading conservative presidential candidates, decided not to receive Castro at his office.
Philippe de Villiers, a staunch conservative who ranks fifth in the presidential polls, said he was ashamed for France and called Castro's visit scandalous.
Although in France on a private visit, Castro was greeted with a trumpet-and-drum fanfare as he arrived Monday for lunch with Socialist President Francois Mitterrand at the presidential palace.
Later today (Tuesday) Castro hosted a banquet at the Cuban embassy. He talked to journalists about his assessment of his visit to France.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
I'm very impressed. It's been extraordinary. Everything I've seen is marvellous. I feel very happy and satisfied. I'm thankful for having being able to travel to this extraordinary country and meet its people.
SUPER CAPTION: President Fidel Castro
Castro also talked about the outcome of his meeting at UNESCO, where he discussed the unfairness of the U-S embargo.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
I've spent many years struggling and we're making progress. There are new elements and there's an increasing number of people in the United States who are creating awareness of the unfairness of the embargo.
SUPER CAPTION: President Fidel Castro
When asked about his plans to visit the U-S, Castro said it wasn't on his agenda.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
I don't have any plans at the moment. We'll have to wait for favourable conditions.
SUPER CAPTION: President Fidel Castro
This is Castro's third visit to Western Europe since he won power in Cuba. He visited Spain in 1984 and 1992.
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Primary schoolchildren visit the Museum of the Revolution
December 17, 2008
1. Wide exterior of the Museum of the Revolution with students walking by
2. Medium shot interior room with exhibits behind glass
3. Close up of typewriter used by Fidel Castro
4. Close up Raul Castro's boots
5. Tilt down bloody clothes encased in glass
6. Pull out yellowed newspaper clippings
7. Pan right Granma boat behind glass
8. Zoom in to Granma name painted on vessel
9. Medium shot Russian tank used by Fidel Castro during Bay of Pigs invasion
10. Close up crumpled U-2 turbine
FILE: January 8, 1959
11. Pan right Malecon Avenue with thousands of people awaiting the arrival of Fidel's convoy
12. Medium shot Fidel Castro waving at crowd
December 17, 2008
13. Medium shot man walking on Old Havana street
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sergio Cardenas, 70, retiree and witness to Fidel's arrival in Havana:
It was grandiose for Cuba. Imagine, the triumph of the revolution. There was a party all around here. Batista had fallen and the revolution had arrived. A new era and a new situation had arrived for the people of Cuba.
15. Wide shot Morro Castle complex where executions were ordered by Che Guevara
November 5, 2008
16. Medium shot Hector Palacios and dissidents seated at table
17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hector Palacios, Cuban dissident:
Why do we have 250 political prisoners? Why aren't any of us recognised? This is an embargo, a real embargo, and that one must be lifted. You cannot hold talks with guns in your hands; you must hold talks unarmed.
December 17, 2008
18. Wide shot Malecon Avenue
19. Tilt down old and crumbling buildings on Malecon Avenue
20. Travelling shot on Malecon Avenue where rafters took to sea
21. Medium shot two men fishing using homemade rafts
22. Medium shot Hotel Nacional on Malecon Avenue
FILE: May 15, 2004
23. Wide shot people marching in front of US Interests Section
24. Medium shot Fidel Castro marching and waving flag with crowd
December 17, 2008
25. Medium shot horse and carriage passing in front of store in Old Havana
26. Close up sign of Fidel Castro in store window (Spanish) 50th Anniversary of the Revolution
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Cuban schoolchildren, sporting the red neckerchiefs of the Communist Pioneers, visited the Museum of the Revolution in Havana - a shrine to the people and events that transformed Cuba into a communist state 50 years ago on New Year's Day.
The boys and girls mingled with foreigners visiting the Cold War outpost on the verge of a new year full of uncertainty.
The museum is in Fulgencio Batista's former presidential palace, which armed revolutionaries assaulted in a failed 1957 assassination attempt.
The children are among 70 percent of Cuba's 11.2 million people born after the revolution, never knowing a government without Fidel or Raul Castro.
Their eyes widened at antique guns and bloodstained clothes of revolutionary martyrs, but they weren't stirred by yellowed newspapers and typewriters.
Museum pieces include the boots Raul Castro wore as a 27-year-old rebel commander with a ponytail, and the bronze plate of a Westinghouse steam turbine belonging to General Electric when it was nationalised in August 1960.
Outside, a glass structure encases the American yacht Granma, which arrived in eastern Cuba on December 2, 1956, carrying 82 men led by Fidel Castro to launch a rebel war.
There's also the Soviet tank Castro rode in during the US-backed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the turbine of the American U-2 spy plane shot down in 1962 when the Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear destruction.
It was grandiose for Cuba. Imagine, the triumph of the revolution. There was a party all around here, said 70-year-old Sergio Cardenas.
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Joely Richardson, co-stars and director on shooting Hemingway movie, the first Hollywood feature sho
An international film crew in recent weeks has been re-enacting historic scenes in the streets of Havana for Papa, a biopic about the budding friendship between American writer Ernest Hemingway and a reporter in the turbulent, pre-revolution Cuba of the 1950s.
Years in the making, producers say it is the first full-length feature film with a Hollywood director and actors to be shot in the country since the 1959 revolution.
Due to decades of ill will between the two countries and Washington's 52-year-old embargo, other movies ostensibly set here, such as The Godfather Part II or 1990's Havana, were filmed in stand-in locations like the Dominican Republic.
It was an absolute passion to actually make it in Cuba where everything that is in the script happened, where the finca (farm) is where (Hemingway) lived, where his boat was, all the spots from the Morro castle to Cojimar where he fished, director Bob Yari said.
It's all here, so trying to duplicate it somewhere else was not very appealing.
Shooting began in March and wrapped over the weekend on the joint Canadian-Cuban-American production, with the island's governmental film institute known as ICAIC providing location support, period costumes and local actors.
Papa came to Cuba under a U.S. Treasury Department license exempting it from most embargo restrictions. Filmmakers said there was a cap on how much they could spend, but would not say how much or release overall budget figures.
For licensing purposes the movie qualified as a documentary, since it depicts a firsthand account of real events that took place here. So it's unlikely that that just any Hollywood blockbuster will get the same permission in the future.
Though the title derives from the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's nickname, the movie is based on an autobiographical script by Denne Bart Petitclerc, who was abandoned by his father as a young boy, fell in love with Hemingway's writing and later came to see him as a father figure.
While working for the Miami Herald in the 1950s, Petitclerc penned a letter to Hemingway professing his admiration. He didn't intend to send it, but his girlfriend found it and dropped it in the mail.
On a recent Saturday, a reading room at the University of Havana library stood in for the Herald newsroom. The scene retells the moment when Petitclerc _ known as Ed in the movie and played by Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar, Saving Private Ryan) _ fields a fateful phone call that at first he thinks is a prank by one of his pals.
Before long, Ed is on a boat with his idol, and the two strike up a friendship that would last until Hemingway's 1961 suicide.
On board of Pilar - like the boat that belonged to Hemingway was called- with a view of Havana city and the Morro castle behind, the crew filmed some of the scenes. They got access to other Havana's most iconic locales including the former Government Palace, which long ago was turned into a museum celebrating Castro's revolution.
Adrian Sparks, a screen and theater veteran who has played Hemingway on stage since 2005, confessed to something of a spiritual connection to the writer and said it was a magical experience portraying him in the land he loved To be here in Cuba to see this land that he loved it's almost like my body is allowing him to be here again, to be on board the Pilar over the Cuban seas that he loved so much, what an opportunity he said adding, What an opportunity for Americans (�) to be here and realize what an exquisitely beautiful country this is, what an exquisitely beautiful people this is.
There have also been some only-in-Cuba moments of frustration.
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CUBA: HAVANA: PILGRIMS FROM FLORIDA REDISCOVER THEIR ROOTS
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A group of pilgrims from Florida, in Cuba to see the Pope, have viewed for themselves the economic hardships that Cubans are going through.
They were all either Cubans or from Cuban origin.
Pilgrims from Tampa, Florida, --all of them Cubans or from Cuban origin, rediscovered their roots on Thursday when they visited the Museum of the city in Havana.
The former Palace of the Capitans-General was home to the Spanish governor until independence, and of the U-S military governor for the few years after.
But it is recent Cuban history which interests them most.
Some had not visited Cuba for more than three decades; others were born in the States and have never been here before.
All are amazed with the beauty of the city and the hospitality of the people, but many we spoke to at random are struck by economic hardship and blame the U-S embargo for it.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
I think the embargo is hurting the people and people are not the ones to blame. The people need help and I think that if we are Christians we have to forgive and help our brothers.
SUPER CAPTION: Nora Alonso, U-S pilgrim
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Although it puts on limitations as far as the assistance the government can get economically -which is the purpose of the embargo, it also puts many restrictions as to the access of the people here in Cuba to the world and therefore it maintains a mass isolated without knowing what the world is capable of offering Cuba.
SUPER CAPTION: Aristides Fernandez, U-S pilgrim
SOUNDBITE (Spanish)
Opinions are now changing, when people see the suffering here because of the embargo. This cannot be this way. This is coming to an end.
SUPER CAPTION: Joanna Diaz, U-S pilgrim
These pilgrims are confident that things are going to change for the better in Cuba, and that the Pope's visit can only accelerate the process.
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