Jorge Trujillo, in charge of Press and Culture of the Cuban Embassy in Luanda praised the event has a very special nuance and recalled Cubans are celebrating the 155th anniversary of the first singing of the National Anthem.

The diplomat paid special attention to the historical circumstances in which the National Anthem was composed, conceived as a combat hymn calling all Cubans to fight for independence from Spain in 1868.

Trujillo stood out the African heritage, one of the roots that “contributed to shape the social and cultural fabric that is Cuba today.”

The diplomat alluded to the significance that the Cuban Revolution gave to culture since its beginnings in 1959, with the development of several institutions, artistic education and the people’s access to the different manifestations of art.

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