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Remedios (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈmeðjos]), also known as San Juan de los Remedios, is a city and municipality located 3 miles (4.8 km) from the northern coast of Cuba, in the center of the island. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in the former Las Villas province.
Las Parrandas de Remedios, a.k.a. Parrandas, are traditional carnival-like street fairs or block parties, with origins date back to the 19th century. They take place in northern and central cities of the former Las Villas province (now divided into Villa Clara , Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila provinces) in Cuba .
Federico Laredo Brú (April 23, 1875, Remedios, Las Villas, Cuba – July 7, 1946, Havana, Cuba) was an attorney and served as President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940. He was married to Leonor Gomez-Montes. Laredo Bru was a Colonel in the Cuban Liberation Army during the Cuban War of Independence. [1]
Olinta Ariosa Morales was born in 1921 in Zulueta, Remedios (now Villa Clara Province), Cuba to a family of sugar-workers. [1] [2] Her father was an administrator at the old San Agustín sugar mill. Olinta attended grammar school in her home town but finished her grammar education in Remedios.
[1] [2] In this voluminous essay, the author explores the colonial history of the town of Remedios. Fr. José González de la Cruz, a priest, alarms the people of the town with news that Lucifer, the prince of darkness, commands an army of demons against them. He proposes that they move the settlement to another place in his own lands.
The Coast Guard said it was to prevent mass illegal migration from Haiti and Cuba. Another area would be the southwest border between the U.S. and Mexico in the Pacific.
Zulueta is located on a valley between Remedios (15 km north) and Placetas (13 km south), and is crossed in the middle by a road named "Carretera a Zulueta". It is 22 km far from Camajuaní, 23 from Caibarién, the nearest seaside town, 42 from Cabaiguán, 48 from Santa Clara, and 61 from Sancti Spíritus.
Social Security has two other funding sources: benefit taxes on some seniors and interest income earned on money in the program's trust funds. But both of those are in danger right now. The ...