Cuba opens exhibition for 70 years of La Historia me Absolverá

 SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Oct 16 (ACN) In tribute to the anniversary of the presentation of Fidel Castro's self-defense in the trial for the actions of July 26, 1953, the exhibition "The Moncada Trial and History Will Absolve Me 70 Years Later" was opened today in Santiago de Cuba.

The exhibition at the Abel Santamaria Museum, in this eastern city, has a variety of copies and formats, books with edition dates prior to the revolutionary triumph, current versions, miniatures and texts in Braille.

Lianet Godinez, chief specialist of the Dranguet House, commented exclusively to the Cuban News Agency that the purpose of the exhibition is to represent the Moncada trial as a preamble to History Will Absolve Me.

In addition, it was dedicated to the figure of Marta Rojas, a journalist who witnessed that legal process and the most outstanding in documenting and spreading the Political Program of the Revolution, she added.

Godinez stressed the presence of books by this author, where she tells the story of the efforts made by Melba Hernandez and Haydee Santamaria to transfer to book format the short lines written by the young lawyer Fidel Castro as a guide for his self-defense plea.

The Office of the City Conservator of Santiago de Cuba, the Provincial Directorate of Cultural Heritage and the Elvira Cape Library were the institutions in charge of collecting and preserving the historical documents, the source stated.

The exhibition was attended by the first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in the territory, Jose Ramon Monteagudo Ruiz, Governor Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, and Aida Liliana Morales, president of the Branch of the Cuban Association of Historians.