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Paulina Alvarez was considered the Empress of Danzonete. She was an outstanding singer who was considered the first woman to perform Danzonete in the year 1929. She had a career as a singer and performed in some groups until 1938 when she created her own orchestra. She was very popular in the musical field in and outside our country. Significant records firms recorded her. She died in Havana on July 22nd, 1965.

Pedro Kouri Esmeja

He was born in Puerto Príncipe, Haiti, on Agosto 21st, 1900, some years later he came to Cuba with his parents. He was a prestigious doctor and researcher who worked in several scientific tasks, as well as in the medical journals he created. He developed a commendable professional work in different institutions and was even well known in the international scientific field. He died on October 16th, 1964, in Havana.

The film Lucía

It is a feature film directed by Humberto Solás produced in 1968 by the Cuban Institute of Cinema and Cinematographic Industry, ICAIC. It was considered by critics worldwide as one of the ten most important films in the history of Ibero-American cinema, as well as one of the ten anthological films of Third World cinema... It was ranked second in the survey organized by the Cuban Film Press Association on the most significant films of Cuban cinema made between 1959 and 2008. It reflects the story of three women in different historical moments in Cuba: the War of Independence (1895), the struggle against dictator Gerardo Machado (1933), and the first years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

Periódico Hoy

El Mundo Newspaper

On April 11, 1901, the newspaper El Mundo began to circulate in Havana and was the first newspaper with the characteristics of a modern journalistic enterprise in Cuba. It was the official representation of the Cuban National Party (PNC). Its owner and director was José Manuel Govín, who adopted populist forms and themes, with an essentially informative sense, in order to meet the expectations of the average reader. At that stage it had only four pages with four columns; a few years later, it reached forty-four pages with eight columns. El Mundo introduced engraving as a complementary graphic element in the Cuban press, as well as the daily social chronicle. It was also a pioneer in the presentation of trichromes and color advertisements in the daily press.

Newspaper El Sol de Marianao

Its appearance was on September 8th, 1908. The initiative of creating the publication was to have a newspaper that spoke about Marianao needs, defending its progresses and thoughts. César San Prieto was its director.

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