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- Written by Dayana Menzoney Justiz / Photos: By the author
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Monuments are much more than stone or bronze raised on a pedestal. They are memory made tangible, the anchor that prevents the past from dissolving into oblivion. Each statue, each bust, each commemorative plaque tells a story that belongs not only to textbooks, but to the living experience of a community.
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Three decades have passed since March 31, 1996. Still, for Pedro Jiménez Espinosa, then a 35-year-old serving as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in the municipality of Jobabo, the memory of Fidel Castro Ruz's embrace still evokes an emotion as intense as the first day. "I say that right now, and my heart starts beating in a way that's indescribable," confesses Jiménez, who years later would become the top Party leader in the entire province.
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She has the gaze of someone who has witnessed history firsthand, from a schoolyard, with the still-trembling hands of a 17-year-old girl who one day saw a giant walk in. Today, Aleida Best Rivero, with over six decades of teaching experience, recalls -with the delicacy of someone guarding a treasure- those two encounters with Fidel Castro Ruz that marked her life forever.
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