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Brigade of Art Instructors comes of age in Cuba

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Eighteen years after its foundation, the José Martí Brigade of Art Instructors celebrates its coming of age with the display of a broad agenda of activities from all aesthetic expressions. Just on the date marked on the island for the Day of Cuban Culture (October 20), the brigade stands out as a space for the dissemination and defense of traditions, popular practices and artistic manifestations, which -by its hand- reach the communities most remote of the largest of the Antilles.

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Thanks to Fidel and Vilma, for the women that we are

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They say that before Fidel, before 1959, Cuban women – like those of almost the whole world – were at best: an ornament in the home, and at worst: a servant with a load of domestic work not paid; transparent, anonymous, whose opinion on political or social issues was not considered. They say that they were obliged to have all their children procreated, because between the precepts of religions and the cost of an interruption of pregnancy, not even thinking about an abortion.