fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Mariana Grajales Coello (d. 1893) was an Afro-Cuban revolutionary and the mother of renowned Cuban patriot Antonio Maceo Grajales. Born in Santiago de Cuba of Dominican parents, Mariana and her sons played pivotal roles in Cuba’s various independence wars of the late nineteenth century. She encouraged her sons’ patriotism and worked providing medical care alongside her daughters for those wounded in battle. She died in exile in Jamaica, where she had moved after the end of the Ten Years’ War in 1878. Most of her sons, including Antonio, died in combat. She was highly praised in print by José Marti. Today one of Cuba’s airports is named after her and she is the subject of two different monuments on the island.
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cubabeisbol:
Happy 101st birthday, Cuban baseball legend Conrado “Connie” Marrero.
The oldest living former major-league baseball player still lives in Havana, Cuba, where he has to use a wheelchair, is hard of hearing and can no longer see.
divalocity:
Chucho Valdés and Concha Buika are a match made in heaven.
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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the United States’ economic embargo on Cuba but I didn’t post anything about it at all. Utter blog fail. I give you this picture instead. It’s a cigar box from 1902.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Cuba released these stamps in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of José Martí’s birth in 2003.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
The national flag of Cuba hangs alongside the Cuban coat of arms and the revolutionary flag of Yara (also known as the flag of La Demajagua) inside the Cuban National Assembly. Created in the mid-nineteenth century by the Venezuelan Narciso López, who led a few unsuccessful attempts to liberate the island from Spanish rule, the current flag of Cuba was adopted as the nation’s national emblem upon independence in the first decade of the twentieth century. The flag of Yara was created by Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes during the Ten Years War (1868-1878), and is named after the Grito de Yara (Cry of Yara), Céspedes’ proclamation of Cuban independence in the town of Yara in 1868.
cubabeisbol:
A 1946 photo of Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso, right, in his rookie Negro league season, with New York Cubans teammates Chiflan Clark. left, and Rodolfo Fernandez and an unidentified woman outside the team’s Harlem storefront office.
The photo was up for auction at Lelands in December 2004.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
legrandcirque:
Cuban citizens lining up to vote. Photograph by George Skadding. Havana, Cuba, June 1944.
1944 was the last year of Fulgencio Batista’s first administration. His handpicked successor, Carlos Saladrigas Zayas, lost to former president Ramón Grau, who played an instrumental role in the development Cuba’s 1940 constitution.
cubabeisbol:
Night game at El Gran Stadium of Havana.
This photo was part of The Sporting News archive that was up for auction at Mears Monthy Auction in November 2010.
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
Raúl Castro photographed at a Hanukkah event held in Havana last year.
As the elevator signals Floor 3, she tells me that her fear of the dark park — on one side of our building — was an obstacle to her going to a friend’s house every night to watch an episode of her soap opera, captured by an illegal satellite dish. But now, she said with gratitude, that strip of concrete and vegetation is guarded 24 hours a day. I look like I don’t understand, but she stresses that the Interior Ministry agents that surround my house have made the neighborhood safer. I would prefer to believe that those shadows I see from my balcony are the fantasies of someone who consumes too much fiction, but the woman returns to the charge. She won’t let me hide behind a smile, rather she wants to emphasize that she owes it to me that she can get to the other building safely. (via Generation Y » Protected Soap Opera)
