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Juan Francisco is a rural community located in the Consejo Popular Turquino II, in the central – west area of the municipality of Yaguajay, in the province of Sancti Spiritus. It has a five square kilometers area. Commander Camilo Cienfuegos established his main camp near the town during the time he was in the north of the old province of Las Villas. Important events were carried out during the revolutionary fight in this area, such as the Plenaria Azucarera on November 28th, 1958and the next day the Asamblea Regional Campesina. Hundreds of people from their sectors took part in these events as well as the rebels.       

It was a musical expression that was born in the in the second half of the sixties in Cuba. It is the prolongation of the previous troubadours such as the so called traditional ballad and feeling. 

It constituted one of the most important facets of Cuban music. It was an aesthetic phenomenon born in the second half of the 1960s in Cuba. It was the continuation of previous trova movements such as the so-called traditional trova and feeling. In its context emerged some and developed others of the most developed popular song genres.