The accompaniment of the weekly Venceremos, official organ of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Guantánamo, the Solvisión telecentre and the CMKS radio station, an anti-imperialist trench, to the communication strategy of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power with a view to the 150th Anniversary of the city, was evidenced today in a meeting of directors of those media with Idaliena Diaz Casamayor, deputy to the Cuban Parliament.
The also Vice President of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power (AMPP) recognized the collaboration of the Guantanamo press in the dissemination of these celebrations, slowed down due to the time and resources that have demanded the fight against COVID-19, whose first successful feature is not report infections with SARS-Cov-2 since last April 30.
He thanked that both the printed organ, as well as the television and radio, also immersed in this fight for health, carried out in the midst of the intensification of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the Caribbean island by the US government, have deployed initiatives to disseminate and consolidate that celebration, whose climax coincides with the coming December 1, when 150 years have passed since the aforementioned honorary title was granted.
Issued on the same date in 1870, the declaration of the Spanish Crown constituted a tacit recognition of the economic and social development of the inhabitants of the village founded at the beginning of the 19th century, by Catalan emigrants and French landowners, on the banks of the Guaso River, in the place known for El Saltadero.
Precisely some of the construction and rehabilitation actions foreseen in the initial program for the festivities will take place in the surroundings of this river stream, a symbol of the town and its inhabitants, including the oldest of the houses erected in the vicinity of today Plaza 24 de Febrero, where the traditional solemn session of the city will take place, and the statuette of Fame, Symbol of the City, and -for the first time will be delivered to relevant personalities (from the city or outside its limits). - the 150th Anniversary Distinction.
Diaz Casamayor thanked the managers and representatives of the mass media in advance for the promised contribution to publicize the On-line call for the creation of a dish and a drink in greeting to the anniversary, a task that the Culinary Association is in charge of and the Bartenders Association, respectively. As well as by the call -in social networks and media- for the proposal of personalities with the necessary merits to be creditors of the aforementioned great incentives.
During the meeting, it was specified to coordinate another one with a view to the spaces that will be dedicated in the Canal de la Ciudad, Solvisión, the anniversary project, and the topics that will be discussed in them, the personalities that will appear and the Round Table that appears in the program for the 150th Anniversary of the Villa del Guaso.
By Pablo Soroa Fernández
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