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Registered with the complete name of Celia Esther of the Desamparados Sánchez Manduley (Media Luna, May 9, 1920 - Havana, January 11, 1980).

She was a revolutionary, political and research Cuban fighter. She was part of the July 26 Movement during the Cuban National Liberation War (1956-1958), where she organized under Frank País’ orders the clandestine network of peasants that was vital for the survival of the guerrilla led by Fidel Castro who landed in the South of Oriente on December 2, 1956 and later became the Rebel Army.

She fulfilled important missions in the supply of the guerilla and soon became direct combatant. After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 she assumed important tasks and responsibilities, being an active participant in the most transcendental moments of the first decades of the revolutionary period, years in which she devoted herself to collecting and organizing all the information regarding the guerrilla struggle. She was a member of the Communist Party of Cuba since its creation until her death. For her work she is known as the native flower of the Revolution.

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It constitutes a collective form of social property and is created from the decision of the peasants to unite their lands and other fundamental means of production to develop economically sustainable agricultural production in the interests of the national economy, the community and the cooperative itself with a rational use of agricultural land, property or usufruct of the cooperative and other agricultural assets and productive resources, aimed at constantly increase the quantity and quality of management products and promote their rapid commercialization and to develop other agricultural and forestry products and provide agricultural services that have been authorized in their corporate purpose.

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It is celebrated in Cuba every May 17 in commemoration of the murder of the humble peasant Niceto Pérez García.

The final recognition of the memory of Niceto Pérez was made by decision of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in choosing this day, May 17, 1959, to promulgate the Agrarian Reform Law, a fact that happened in La Plata, Sierra Maestra, place where the Command of the Rebel Army was placed during the war against the government of Fulgencio Batista.

The First Law of Agrarian Reform is the most important and transcendent law signed after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. It is the law that grants land to Cuban peasants. From that moment the lands began to pass into the hands of their true owners and materialized one of the postulates of History Will Absolve me.

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Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) decided to tackle the effects of climate change, tropical storms and hurricanes through the application of an ecosystem-based adaptation measure (EBA): the recovery of mangrove forest.

Mangroves constitute a natural barrier against hurricanes, rising sea levels, and the advance of salinity towards aquifers and farmland; but its health is very affected due to the strong exploitation of the resource and the construction of civil works that altered its operation.

With the commitment to support the communities on the southern coast of Artemisa and Mayabeque in the implementation of EBA and the recovery of their coastal ecosystems, and with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba, CITMA presented a project to the Adaptation Fund, with the purpose of receiving funding for the rehabilitation of mangrove areas in a stretch of 84 km between both provinces, one of the most affected by climate change.

The project was approved by the Fund in February 2014, the agreement for its implementation between the Fund and UNDP was signed in March of that year, and officially starts on June 19, 2014, with the signature between UNDP and the Cuban Government.

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It is a category established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which distinguishes specific goods of exceptional relevance - cultural or natural - for the common heritage of mankind. These assets form the World Heritage List, endorsed by the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is an intergovernmental body which issues instructions for the insertion of cultural or natural property on the World Heritage List. It is advised by other bodies such as the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Center for the Study of the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM).

The inclusion of cultural or natural goods in the list is carried out according to a defined procedure, which implies the prior establishment, for each state party to the Convention, of an indicative list of goods to be registered.

This inventory of goods is officially delivered to the World Heritage Center, UNESCO. Consultative bodies such as ICOMOS, IUCN and ICCROM then evaluate each proposal. Its reports are discussed in the World Heritage Committee and the inclusion or not of the property on the World Heritage List is decided.

Only the countries that sign the World Heritage Convention, where they commit to identify, protect, conserve and revalue their cultural and natural heritage, may propose their assets to obtain the World Heritage Declaration. The indicative list of cultural and natural property must be made in accordance with the criteria of the Convention.

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It is a nation constituted in a social and democratic state of law whose form of government is the parliamentary monarchy. It occupies most of the Iberian Peninsula in addition to other territories such as the archipelagos of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean near Africa, as well as other territories such as Melilla and Ceuta in North Africa.

Founding member of the European Union, in territorial extension is the third largest country in Europe (not counting Russia). It shares land borders with France and with the Principality of Andorra to the north, with Portugal to the west and with the British colony of Gibraltar to the south. In its African territories, it shares land and sea borders with Morocco.