{"id":4315,"date":"2023-07-14T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T22:05:46","slug":"the-mayor-general-pedro-agustin-perez-house-museum-celebrates-a-decade-of-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/the-mayor-general-pedro-agustin-perez-house-museum-celebrates-a-decade-of-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mayor General Pedro Agust\u00edn P\u00e9rez House Museum Celebrates a Decade of Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4316\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/casa-museo2-e1689335284735-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/casa-museo2-e1689335284735-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/casa-museo2-e1689335284735.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casa Museo Mayor General Pedro A. P\u00e9rez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over 78 000 visitors from almost all the Cuban provinces have been welcomed to date at the Pedro Agust\u00edn P\u00e9rez House Museum, inaugurated in this city on July 16, 2013 during a ceremony headed \u00a0by Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez, current president of the Republic andfirst vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers by that time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an honor to visit this essential home, a patrimony of the main exponent of the liberation wars in this combative region of the country,&#8221; said the current First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba in the guests book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations for giving the Guantanamo and Cuban people this paradigmatic site of our history. Success in future work!,&#8221; said D\u00edaz-Canel after paying tribute to the distinguished Major General of the Liberation Army, whose mortal remains rest in the Guantanamo Mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Amelo N\u00e1poles, museologist of the patrimonial entity dedicated to Periquito, as Mayor General Pedro Agustin Perez was popularly known, said that the names of memorable visits to the property, senior political leaders, prominent military chiefs, ministers, ambassadors, historians and cultural personalities are registered.<\/p>\n<p>In its four rooms, documents and objects related to the Guantanamo mambi history are exhibited, among them the gala saber of Pedro Agust\u00edn, who stated on August 8, 1898 the following: &#8220;If our independence is not assured now, it is my desire to continue fighting for it thirty more years, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The specialists and workers of the House Museum keep spaces such as Historiarte, Ra\u00edces and Entre L\u00edneas, dedicated to children, young people and adults, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>With the rescue a decade ago of the important place, the residents of Guantanamo and all Cuba, achieved a deeper approach to the life and work of one of the most illustrious patriots of the liberation deeds in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Its opening also was an act of justice for the person in charge of the protection of the National Hero Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed and General M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez, during their trips through Guantanamo, after the disembarkation of both by the Playita de Cajobabo, on April 11, 1895.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 78 000 visitors from almost all the Cuban provinces have been welcomed to date at the Pedro Agust\u00edn P\u00e9rez House Museum, inaugurated in this city on July 16, 2013 during a ceremony headed \u00a0by Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez, current president of the Republic andfirst vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers by that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}