Images via the Communist Party of Cuba
On the evening of December 24, 1959, the residents of the hamlet of Soplillar, in the Ciénaga de Zapata, Cuba, were organizing a traditional and typical Cuban Christmas Eve dinner when revolutionaries Fidel Castro, Antonio Nuñez Jiménez, and other comrades suddenly arrived. This was just days before the first anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Castro and the others had been touring to see progress in the area and Fidel suggested they visit the small hamlet to feast with them. This became known as the dinner with the charcoal burners. They ate, among other things, a marinated pig that was cooked over charcoal that the villagers themselves had produced.
This now legendary event was honoured this year by First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez who travelled there on Tuesday. Accompanied by Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, the Cuban president toured the space that now includes a Memorial Library, where you can learn about what happened that day, and acts as a permanent tribute to Fidel. They also talked with local residents and workers and sat with them at a table that replicates the one that welcomed Fidel.
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