Juan Gualberto Gómez and Martí conspired in Havana to organize what would be the Little War. The Spaniards deported first Martí and then Juan Gualberto.
A deep chronology of the life of the patriot and journalist Juan Gualberto Gómez from Matanzas has just arrived in my hands, right in the year where the whole Cuba remembers him for the 160th anniversary of his birth.
The War of 10 years was over. Just a few small, isolated departures stubbornly resisted with patriotic anger the Hispanic lunges. Cubans, as Martí would say once, were not defeated, they had just let the sword down, hopeless mostly by fatigue and lack of resources that the wore down the patriotism of a bourgeoisie no longer able to lead the quest.
In the lives of these two great heroes of the Fatherland are coincidences that call the attention and help to reaffirm the epithet of the one from Matanzas as the black brother of the Apostle.
Among the activities of the 40th anniversary of the Constitution of the People’s Power bodies, an experience that began in the Athens of Cuba, was filed in this city the Matanceros magazine that will illustrate in its publications the management governance in the region and will act as a space of communication between the city and its inhabitants.
Every story has a beginning and an end. The Juan Gualberto Gomez´story is no an exception; he was born, grew up and carved his name in the Cuban history, and he even had time to do journalism and fight against racial discrimination.
Vellocino is a secluded place of the Matanzas´s geography , located five miles and a half northwest of the Juan Gualberto Gómez´s town, in Union de Reyes´s municipallity . It is surrounded by large sugarcane plantations and joined such a village with a dusty dirt road, almost always in shabby conditions.
In 1953 the Cuban nation was involved in perhaps the most dismal time since its advent as a republic in 1902. Government was the personal fiefdom of a dictator, boosted to power by the United States. This, instead, were not only the domain hiding behind the presidential chair, they had also become the economic master of country which they exploited putting it at the brink of an economic catastrophe.
The Juan Gualberto Gómez Annual National Journalism Award awarded to people alive, for the excellence of a work framed in the previous year, in line with the journalistic and historical legacy of the independence and anti-imperialist patriot Juan Gualberto Gómez.
UNION DE REYES -. A scientific event with popular participation will take place this Saturday in the Juan Gualberto Gómez community (known as Sabanilla) to delve into the life and work of the ejemplar patriot and close friend of Marti , in honor of the 160th anniversary of his birthday on July12th.
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