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A rally in favor of the 2004 Venezuelan referendum to recall Hugo Chávez in the capital, Caracas.. The first protests, known as the "Guarimbazo", [7] [16] [17] began on 27 February 2004 and lasted five consecutive days, taking place mainly in middle and upper class neighborhoods of Caracas and fifteen other cities of the country.
Al compás de Cuba (To the compass of Cuba) Mario Gallo: Documentary: Historias de la revolución (Stories of the revolution) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Historic drama, documentary: 1961: Realengo 18: Oscar Torres, Eduardo Manet: Drama: P.M. (Pasado Meridiano) Alberto Cabrera Infante, Orlando Jiménez Leal: Documentary ¡Muerte al invasor! (Death ...
José Miró Cardona, President of Cuba in 1959; José Martí, poet, philosopher, politician, writer, revolutionary; Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte, former member of the Cuban politburo and first Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba; Julio Antonio Mella, founder of the original Cuban Communist Party
Four short films were shown: Partida de cartas, El tren, El regador y el muchacho y El sombrero cómico. The tickets were sold at a price of 50 cents, and 20 cents for kids and the military. Short after, Veyre performed a leading role in the first film produced in the island, Simulacro de incendio, a documentary centered around firemen in Havana.
José Antonio Echeverría Bianchi (July 16, 1932 – March 13, 1957) was a Cuban prominent figure in the Cuban Revolution against President Fulgencio Batista.Echeverría was the President of the Federation of University Students (Federación Estudiantil Universitaria - FEU) and a founding member of the militant organization Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo.
Cuba is a 1979 American adventure thriller film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, portraying the build-up to the 1958 Cuban Revolution, filmed in Panavision. [2] N 1 ] Neil Sinyard in his The Films of Richard Lester wrote that the film, "developed originally out of an idea of Lester's own, inspired by a conversation with a ...
Leopoldo Fernández last movie appearance was in 2003 in the film Latin Comedy: Una Comedia de Derecha para un Publico de Izquierda, where he co-starred with comedian, producer, writer, actress and director Janet Alvarez Gonzalez. Fernández was also a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and director. In his late years, he retired and dedicated ...
There is an abandoned Jai alai court [1] in the back of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, the site of the old Casa de Beneficencia, on Calles Concordia and Lucenas near Calle Belascoain, an area that had been considered in the early part of the city as a place to locate the helpless and the unwanted (Casa de Beneficencia, Hospital de San Lázaro, the Espada Cemetery, Casa de Dementes de San ...