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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.
Eduardo Muñoz Bachs (1937–2001), Spanish-born Cuban poster artist; Henry Ballate (born 1966), artist, born in Aguada de Pasajeros; Juan Pablo Ballester Carmenates (born 1966), photographer, video artist, born in Camagüey; Dulce Beatriz (1931–2021), painter, born in Havana; José Bedia Valdés (born 1959), painter, born in Havana
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 ...
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 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
In 1997, Sandra Levinson, executive director of the Center for Cuban Studies Art Space in New York City, organized Naïve Art in Cuba, a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Metropolitan Arts Center featuring the art of fourteen Cuban naïve artists, in addition to the eight members of the Grupo Bayate artist's collective from Mella, Santiago de ...
90 Miles is a 2001 documentary film written and directed by Juan Carlos Zaldívar. [1] The film is a recounting of the events that lead Zaldívar to become a Marielito and leave Cuba for a better life in Miami. It premiered in 2003 on PBS as part of its P.O.V. series.
Huber Matos Benítez (26 November 1918 – 27 February 2014) was a Cuban military leader, political dissident, activist, and writer. He opposed the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista from its inception in 1952 and fought alongside Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and other members of the 26th of July Movement to overthrow it.