Last Thursday, the historic site Toma de la Microonda de la Loma de Las Mantecas was reopened, as one of the different activities of the municipality of Calixto García in greeting to May 18, International Museum Day.
Students from the Buenaventura Basic Secondary School, workers from the Culture sector, as well as directors of the Government and the Territory Party arrived at the top of one of the main elevations of Calixteña geography, to lead the placement of a new tarja that perpetuates part of our history.
The aforementioned plant functioned as a strategic point of the Batista dictatorship, as a relay for confidential military information from the city of Camaguey to the Holguín regiment.
“We are working on a process of integrating culture in the municipality, and one of the tasks that we had pending was the location of a new buckler in the place where the microwave was, because although access there is somewhat difficult, It is a place that makes us proud and we have to safeguard it”, this is how Mr. Alexander, director of the Municipal Culture Sector, told us.
The geography of Calixto, like that of the vast majority of Cuban municipalities, has different signs of the traces left by martyrs and patriots at different stages, and this microwave was one of several minted by members of the Rebel Army in December 1958. .
"In the short time that we have been in the activity, we have realized that through the installation that we are directing we can achieve many goals in favor of our culture and our history", in this way Daniel Martínez Rabelo, director of the Municipal Museum, who elaborated on new projects: "we are already working on signaling in the Las Mantecas neighborhood of the places where the Mambisa Prefecture, the camp of General Calixto García and the blood camp were, and in Las Calabazas the approximate place where the brave mambí Henry Reeve, known as the Little Englishman, was seriously wounded”.
