The National Workshop commemorating Duaba, a necessary landing, will be held in Baracoa from March 30th to April 1st, the date of the traditional popular pilgrimage to Duaba Beach, the site where Generals Antonio and José Maceo, Flor Crombet, and other compatriots landed 130 years ago to join the resumption of the necessary war for Cuban independence.
The event will feature delegates from the provinces of Holguín, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, Villa Clara, and Guantánamo. They will present more than a dozen research work related to the Maceo Grajales family, their ties to the 19th-century Cuban independence movement, the landing at Duaba Beach, and the Honor Schooner expeditionaries.
Elexis Fernández Rubio Navarro, first vice president of the Union of Cuban Historians in Guantánamo, explained that the scientific program of the national workshop includes two working committees for academic meeting, aimed at sharing research results on the processes and personalities related to this event in national history. The main venue will be the Encanto movie theater in the first Cuban village.
The screening of the audiovisual “Baracoando: “130th Anniversary of the Landing of Honor,” by local filmmaker Baldomeero Noa Aguirre, and the panel “Baracoa and April 1st,” will be held on March 30th and 31st during the workshop’s scientific program.
