The historian of the Guantanamo City, José Sánchez Guerra, along with other important local researchers developed the workshop 220th anniversary of the French presence in this eastern province, whose rise of migration dates back in the context of the Haitian Revolution at the end of the 18th century.
In the “Antonia Luisa Cabal” Concert Hall, in the capital city of this province, the investigations presented dealt with French colonization in Guantánamo, and French culture in the Upper East, 19th century, by Ismael Alonso Comas and José Sánchez Guerra, two Guantanamo intellectuals who are recognized for their studies and publications related to the influence and contributions of that ethnic group in the region.
For his part, MSC. Osmani Sánchez presented the topic “The ruins of the French coffee plantations, a World Heritage Site”, historical relics located in the mountainous areas of the municipalities of Yateras, El Salvador and Niceto Pérez, where the infrastructure of country estate, coffee plantations and industrial zones established by the French landowner and their slaves more than two centuries ago, remains in an advanced state of decay.
Conducted by Master Ladislao Guerra Valiente and attended by local authorities of government, the Communist Party and senior high students, the Worshop was organized by the Municipal Directorate of Culture, the Provincial Center of Books and Literature, the Cuban Historians Association and the Enterprise and Coffee Processing Plant AltoSerra , in which participants knew important aspects of the demographics, architecture, economy and customs of the Guantanamo population, also marked by French emigrants and descendants, who arrived in the region from the European continent and the Caribbean islands.
Translated by Liubis Balart Martínez
