Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, presented at Havana’s Jose Marti National Library the book La Minería en Cuba. Una aproximación (Mining in Cuba: an Approach).

Valdes congratulated the author of the text, Juan Ruiz Quintana, Mining Director General of the Ministry of Energy and Mines, for its topicality and use of a language easy to understand.

Printed by the Nuevo Milenio Scientific-Technical Publishing House, La mineria en Cuba. Una aproximación is composed of three chapters related to that sector, main minerals and processes currently applied in the nation, and an approach to the life and work of Rene Ramos Latour.

Valdes added that the text will allow young generations and workers who were born after that period to know more about Ramos Latour (1932-1958), Commander of the Rebel Army and head of Action and Sabotage of the July 26 Movement under the pseudonym of Daniel, after the death of Frank Pais on July, 1957.

Ramos Latour worked at the Nicaro Nickel Company, the first nickel processing plant built in the country, nationalized by the revolutionary government and that later was named after him.

In began to be built in 1924 in that town of today’s Mayari municipality in the province of Holguin, and according to historians it began to produce at the end of 1943.