The Center, was inaugurated last Thursday in the presence of the Cuban government staff, in addition to Nicolás Maduro and Raúl Castro, and began receiving scheduled visits a day later and, although it is open to the general public and admission is free, many of the visiting groups that coincided with 14ymedio’s visit were made up of officials and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. “In reality it is a museum with a name of something else, you come to know Fidel from the time he was a child until his physical loss,” the guide to the Fidel Castro Ruz Center says as soon as the tour begins. So they play didactic games while they admire Fidel’s jeep,” the guide adds, pointing to the adjoining space. “This next room is designed for the little ones. “It was driven here, the difficult thing was to put it inside,” says the essential guide that accompanies visitors through the Center. In the middle of this orchard, the jeep that Castro used in the Sierra Maestra appears.
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The official preferred to say that a good part of the investment was covered with “donations that were received from other countries,” which he did not specify either, and that for that reason it has not represented a great expense for the State.Įxuberance reigns from the very entrance, with a garden that houses more than 11,000 plants brought from all over the country, but also from outside. Among them are those that form a forest like Birán, Castro’s cradle trees of the Sierra Maestra, where his insurrection against Batista began and a sample of his latest eccentricities, moringa, a protein plant to which he obsessively devoted himself in his later years. In addition, there are Venezuelan trees - perhaps part of a donation from Caracas - and rocks brought from the mouths of the La Plata and Carpintero rivers shape a waterfall that falls into a small pond full of tropical fish. The cost of the monumental work is unknown, since the head of Preservation of the Documentary Heritage of the Palace of the Revolution, Alberto Albariño, refused to answer that question in a guided visit of the international press. “They have put in a few million here,” a young woman whispered to her companion this week, when a 14ymedio reporter walked the corridors of this temple-like place dedicated to the god of the Cuban Revolution. “Please give me something to buy a pizza, I’m hungry,” insists the woman, speaking to the visitors of the brand new Fidel Castro Ruz Center, living testimony of the failure of the story told in the museum behind the high wall where opulence reigns and and the annoying things are left out. Main facade of the luxurious Fidel Castro Ruz Center, in Havana. (Fidel Castro Ruz Center)ġ4ymedio, Natalia López Moya, Havana, 1 December 2021 - The police have found a homeless person huddled at the corner of Paseo Avenue and 11th Street in Havana’s Vedado.
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