Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]

Pay homage in Granma to Fabio di Celmo

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Date: 2021-08

After 21 years of the vileness made in 1997 taking early his life, the young Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo, victim of the terrorism against Cuba, he will be honored in this eastern city, where an sculpture natural sized makes endless his memory in the wax museum.

Ismarys López Comas, director of the singular picture gallery, declared to the ACN that as part of a compound initiative, the tribute will take part this Tuesday in the headquarters of the delegation of the Friendship Cuban Institute with the Foreign Countries in Granma Province.

He emphasized that from the conference on, the participants in the meeting will remember Fabio, killed in Habana as a consequence in Havana of a terrorist attack perpetrated at the Copacabana hotel.

The intellectual author of the sabotage was Luis Posada Carriles, confessed criminal who after the fact did not hesitate to ask: ¨I sleep like a baby. That Italian man was at the wrong time in the wrong place.¨

Inaugurated in the year 2005, the reproduction in polycromed wax of the figure of Di Celmo, is a family work compound by the brothers Raphael and Leander Barrios Milan and his father, Raphael Barrios Madrigal, creators, besides, of all of the pieces integrating the collection of the Bayamo´s museum.

Los Barrios, as they are called, also conceived the bust of the American vocalist Nat King Cole, which decorates the Hall of Fame of the National Hotel in Cuba.

Unique of his type in the country, the wax museum opened its doors on July 14th 2004, and it exhibits natural sized sculptures of Cuban and foreign personalities, among them the famous writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Ernest Hemingway.

Other pieces remember popular musicians of the Island like Compay Segundo, Benny Moré, Rita Montaner, Bola de Nieve, Sindo Garay, Carlos Puebla, Polo Montañez and Juan Formel.

Likewise, are represented the prominent patriots Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the father of our Homeland and Jose Marti, National Hero and apostle of our independence, according to CAN.

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