Description
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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.
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Notes
| The original printed documents come from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a US government agency that gathered and translated news and information from foreign media. These were digitized by the U.S. Information Agency’s Department of Research of the Radio Martí Program from 1959 through the 1980s. The online records are now found in the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) Castro Speech Database, which gives access to the English translations of 2,396 speeches and interviews given by Fidel Castro. Luke Hernandez extracted the metadata from the LANIC website into a CSV file and began georeferencing the speeches in June 2018. Karla Roig finalized the scraping of the data, created a subset of inauguration speeches, georeferenced and visualized them, and then provided the metadata for the dataset in April 2019. This project has been developed from the speech-level description provided with these digitized files. The selection made for the purposes of the exhibition are by no means exhaustive and do not include all inauguration speeches given by Castro. |