1765. Francisco de Arango y Parreño is born in Havana.

He is considered the first Cuban economist who dedicated his life and his intelligence to the goal of achieving favorable measures from the Spanish monarchy for his homeland. He participated in the work of the Patriotic Society, later called the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, in the foundation and organization of the Royal Consulate of Agriculture and Commerce, of which he was appointed Perpetual Trustee. As of 1803 he attended the responsibility of Royal Alferez of the City Hall of Havana and later he was Advisor of the Tobacco Factory.

For all these positions that he held, he was located in the most prominent places of the colony in Cuba and fought in defense of the policy sponsored by the landowners and sugar producers.

He waged a great battle against the monopolistic trade regime that Spain had imposed on Cuba.

His death occurred in Havana on March 21, 1837.

His body was buried in the Panteón de los Beneméritos de la Patria in the Espada Cemetery, the first of its kind in Cuba, inaugurated in the Villa de San Cristóbal in Havana on February 2, 1806.

1959. Commander in Chief Fidel Castro delivers a speech at the opening of the X Congress of the National Federation of Sugar Workers held at the Palacio de los Trabajadores in Havana.

He points out: “Now I am going to explain something so simple that no one will be left without understanding it: it is not possible to double the standard of living of the people if our production is not doubled, it is not possible to triple the standard of living of the people if it is not tripled. our production, it is not possible to quadruple the standard of living of the people if our production is not quadrupled. And giving the worker the illusion that the problem is one of decrees, that the problem is one of war without quarter and not of increasing our production by all possible means, is demagoguery and it is a deception that the first to suffer tomorrow are the workers themselves, the humble classes of our people, whom we want to redeem and who cannot be redeemed if it is not with technology, if it is not with industrialization and with the increase of our production”.