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Esteban Lazo Attends Baracoa's 500th Anniversary.

CUBA, August 17, 2011.- Cuban Vice President, Esteban Lazo, attended on Monday the main celebration for the 500th anniversary of the founding of Baracoa, the first Cuban village.

The event, organized by the local Assembly of People’s Power, put an end to a wide range of activities celebrating the 'birthday' of Cuba’s elder city.

Also on Monday a Catholic Mass was held at the central Cacique Hatuey Square, officiated by Monsignor Dionisio Garcia Ibanez, president of Cuba’s Catholic Bishops Conference and Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba.

 At the gathering, special recognitions were granted to workers and personalities, including the first Latin American cosmonaut, Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

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