Fidel Castro Educational Building Inauguration Speeches, 1960-1993, 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 33 buildings that were inaugurated by Castro from February 1960 to July 1993. These buildings include schools, universities, and medical centers that focus on training or pedagogy, 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 thirteen weren’t able to be located, and thus, ten of them were given a general location of a city or province, while the other three were provided a location south of Cuba, visible on the sea to provide accurate representation of the entirety of the dataset.