On October of 1868 in the City of Yara in Granma Province, the first armed clash between Cubans and Spaniards took place, led by the General-in-Chief of the Liberation Army, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. 

In this engagement, the first Cuban to die for the cause of independence, Fernando Guardia y Céspedes, was killed; on the Spanish side, a soldier surnamed Aguilera also fell. This event signaled to both Cuba and the world that a revolution for independence had begun on the island.

He said only the best people… How’s it going?

The Associated Press reports that Farmer Mike has been chiseling whimsical faces and comical creatures into big pumpkins for more than four decades. Wearing his trademark orange overalls and farmer hat, he’s sculpted hundreds of gourds into ghoulish faces, seaside landscapes, witches, dragons and pop culture figures such as Yoda and Charlie Brown.

https://apnews.com/article/pumpkin-carving-picasso-halloween-half-moon-…

They Arrived Together the Last Ten Minutes

On the night before the election, Margarita sat by her window, watching her neighbors turn off their lights one by one.

A few days until the midterm elections, we the people need to pull out the unwanted and unqualified weeds.