Several activities, including the opening of an exhibition about fighter Filiberto Ojeda Rios, murdered 20 years ago by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the Hormigueros municipality, will take place over the week at the ICAP headquarters.

The 50th anniversary of the First International Conference for the Independence of Puerto Rico, held in Cuba at the initiative of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, will be commemorated.

The 157th anniversary of the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), which took place on September 23, 1868, the date of Puerto Rican independence from Spain, is also included.

The ICAP noted that the event is dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the death of Puerto Rican leader Juan Mari Bras, founder, along with Fidel Castro, of the Puerto Rican Mission in Cuba, the first and only Puerto Rican embassy, established in 1966.

The program includes laying wreaths to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti and the Father of the Puerto Rican Homeland, Ramon Emeterio Betances, in Havana’s Central and Fraternidad Parks.

It also includes visits to the Fidel Castro Center in Havana and the Pedro Albizu Campos School in Union de Reyes, in the western Matanzas province.

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