Unusual: They propose to declare Fidel Castro the fifth discoverer of Cuba

The Office of the Conservator of the City of Matanzas, supported by those of Guantánamo and Baracoa, proposed declaring Fidel Castro as the fifth discoverer of Cuba, in the context of the commemoration of the97th anniversary of his birth.

The note published on Facebook by the Office of the Conservator of the City of Matanzas, and subsequently deleted, indicated that the proposal was made by Leonel Pérez Orozco, who directs that local office, and had Javier Leal, son of Eusebio Leal and owner of the agency based in SpainOnlineTours.

In addition toCastro, the proposal contemplates promoting Eusebio Leal as the sixth discoverer of Cuba, as confirmed by thepageof the Union of Cuban Historians of Guantánamo.

"In the La Esperanza farm, located on the banks of the Toa torrent, within the framework of the Centennial Workshop of Dr. Antonio Núñez Jiménez, the agreement was made to propose to the country's authorities, the category of the fifth discoverer of Cuba to Fidel Castro for his contribution to the development of a new sovereign and just Cuba, and to Eusebio Leal Spengler as the sixth discoverer, for his work in preserving the nation's historical cultural heritage, proposed by Orosco, the curator of the city of Matanzas," wrote the Guantanamo headquarters.

The official also proposed declaring the former historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, as the sixth discoverer.

With the appointment, if approved, the cuban dictator It would be placed on the same list as the considered first discoverer, Christopher Columbus; the scientist and explorer Alejandro de Humboldt; the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz and the archaeologist and chief of Castro's bodyguard, Antonio Núñez Jiménez.