Fidel Castro Industrial Building Inauguration Speeches, 1968-1994, from the Fidel Castro Speech Database

The map was created as part of the online exhibition “Inauguration Speeches by Fidel Castro 1960-1994”, based on the Castro Speech Database, which is hosted in the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) by the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. The map includes a subset of 28 buildings related to the speeches given by Fidel Castro that range from July 1968 to December 1994. These buildings include farms, printing plants, sugar mills, and oil refineries, among others. The buildings were identified by the building names found in the speeches and georeferenced to their location. Out of the buildings identified, only nine weren’t able to be located and thus, eight of them were given a general location of a city or province, and one of them was provided a location south of Cuba, visible on the sea to provide accurate representation of the entirety of the dataset.