Havana, June 9 (ACN) Undeterred by the low flights of North American planes, the Cuban delegation to the X Games in Central America and the Caribbean on June 10, 1966, aboard the ship Cerro Pelado, announced its determination to reach Puerto Rich .
The Cerro Pelado statement denounced before the whole world the absurd and illegal behavior of the US State Department, which denied this sports embassy the visa and banned any Cuban plane or ship from touching the Puerto Rican port or ground, as it would be seized.
“…Cuban athletes know how to act, not only to defend our rights, but also for the rights of all peoples and for the prestige of sport, which must exist as a link between peoples…”. it in one of its parts historical document.
At that event, Cuba was the second-place nation behind Mexico with 35 gold, 19 silver, and 24 bronze medals. On June 29, 1966, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro received the heroic and victorious entourage.
1894: José Martí meets with the Cubans living in Costa Rica and tells them about the upcoming war. On his initiative, the Club General Maceo was founded; The women present consider the usefulness of founding a women’s association (which was constituted eight days later).
1946: The writer Manuel García-Garófalo Mesa, one of the continuators of the research and cataloging of the Cuban bibliography that Antonio Bachiller y Morales began in the mid-nineteenth century, died.
He was the author of biographical sketches on Bachiller y Morales himself, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido), José María Heredia, Marta Abreu and Miguel Jerónimo Gutiérrez.
1986: Prominent neurophysiologist Armando Córdova Castro, founder and director of psychiatry at Comandante Manuel Fajardo Hospital, dies in Havana. First Cuban to be awarded the Sechenov Medal in the USSR for his contributions to neurophysiology.
1989: The composer, guitarist and performer José Antonio Méndez, one of the most outstanding exponents of sentiment in Cuba, dies. His compositions have gained international fame, including My Girlfriend, The Glory is You, If You Understand Me, I Was Miss You.
2008: The great intellectual Roberto Fernández Retamar is elected director of the Cuban Language Academy, of which he has been a member since September 17, 1995, presiding with the letter K.
He holds a doctorate in philology and is a permanent researcher, honorary professor (1986) at the University of San Marcos (Lima) and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sofia (1989), Buenos Aires (1993) and Las Villas Central University (2011). .
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1962: Two buses and a train are shot in Matanzas.
DE FIDEL, HIS inexhaustible legacy
“A young revolution, a young people, well organized and well prepared, undoubtedly has an extraordinary future. And she will not only be able to build the future of her people, but within the limits of her strength, she will also be able to help other people.”
(Speech by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz at the Rubén Martínez Villena Technological Institute at the graduation ceremony of the students on June 10, 1968).