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Noche Buena When There Was Christmas

Noche Buena When There Was Christmas

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Juneisy Hawkins
Dec 15, 2023
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In the last post I talked about how for Cubans, and for most Latin Americans, really, it is Christmas Eve, known as Noche Buena, that is the main celebration day of the Christmas season. In this post I’m going to continue that thread and share with you what Noche Buena was like in Cuba before the Fidel Castro regime outlawed it in the late 1960s.

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