Exhibition dedicated to Fidel Castro opens at Cuban Embassy in the U.S.

Washington, D.C., Sept. 17 — An exhibition of posters allegorical to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, opened today at the Cuban Embassy in the United States with Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío in attendance.

The event, which is part of the program for Fidel’s centenary in 2026, was attended by representatives of the intellectual community, culture, political parties, social movements, solidarity organizations, and friends of Cuba in general.

Referring to the Cuban leader, Fernández de Cossío mentioned the “extraordinary characteristics concentrated in a single individual” and affirmed that he made a great contribution to the world for the better and “I believe that is something for which he will be remembered,” he emphasized

Earlier, the head of the Cuban Mission, Lianys Torres, welcomed participants to the event on Wednesday evening, where poet Nubia Kai recited one of her poems dedicated to the island, Fidel, and his Revolution.

Activist Mark Friedman, co-chair of the Los Angeles Hands Off Cuba Committee, also spoke, and the embassy thanked him for his dedication and efforts in bringing the exhibition to a successful conclusion.

Friedman announced that they will be organizing a similar event in Los Angeles on October 25, “when we will once again vehemently protest the U.S. blockade of Cuba in the run-up to the vote at the United Nations.”

Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, in what is now the eastern province of Holguín, and his departure into immortality on November 25, 2016, at the age of 90, caused an international stir.

Throughout his life, the island’s State Security services identified hundreds of plans in various stages of development to physically eliminate him. He emerged unscathed from 634 plots to assassinate him between 1958 and 2000.

Fidel asked that no statues or squares be erected in his memory, which is why the monolith where his ashes rest in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba bears only the five letters of his name.

Source: Prensa Latina, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English