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"In the warm embrace of President Castro made me felt how impressed he was to see the Monument to the Fallen in Barbados."
For about 30 minutes, the artist told the Ambassador, the criteria that drove the design of the monolith located in an area near the beach where that fateful morning of October 6, 1976 CU 455 plane of Cubana Airlines crashed into the sea wrapped in flames as a result of a bomb planted in the cabin by murderous hands. "It was an idea of the government of then Prime Minister Owen Arthur. They told me once I accepted the proposal and it really made an impact that far to Barbados and the Caribbean." When opened, the August 1, 1998, the Cro. Fidel was present along with other leaders in the region and Broodhagen met him. "We talked a few minutes, I introduced my mother and father (the late renowned sculptor barbadense) and he gave me a hug. In the warm embrace of President Castro I felt how impressed he was to see the Monument to the Fallen in Barbados." At the meeting, Ambassador gave to the artist details of plans for completion in Barbados a Tribute Week next October in honor of the fallen, condemning the situation of freedom which is the author of the abominable crime Luis Posada Carriles and for thte freedom of the Five. Broodhagen said he is honored to be invited to join the Honorary Committee of the Week and offered to dig into the photographic history and documentary about the event. "Say hello to President Castro, greeting him and tell him my eternal remembrance of that day, when the August 1, 1998, I met him and I could feel the immense warm of his company." (Cubaminrex-Embacuba Barbados) |
BARBADOS, JULY 3 2011.- With those words the renowned Barbadian artist Virgil Broodhagen began his meeting with Ambassador of Cuba here Lissette Perez.