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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.
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.
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 ...
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
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
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 ...
Some of the best known zarzuelas are La virgen morena (Grenet), Nina Rita (Grenet and Lecuona), María la O, El batey, Rosa la China (all Lecuona); Gonzalo Roig with La Habana de noche; Rodrigo Prats with Amalia Batista and La perla del caribe; and above all, Cecilia Valdés (the musical of the most famous Cuban novel of the 19th century, with ...
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 ...