Fidel Castro Medical Building Inauguration Speeches, 1962-1994, 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 23 buildings that were inaugurated by Castro from October 1962 to December 1994. The medical buildings include hospitals, pedagogical institutes, polyclinics, and other medical centers. The buildings were identified by the building names found in the speeches and georeferenced to their location. Out of the buildings identified, only 4 weren’t able to be located and thus were provided a general location of a city or province to provide accurate representation of the entirety of the dataset.