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   From: pedro1940@progression.net   
      
   Unveiling of bust of Dr. Tomás Tuma Iza, my father.   
      
   I was 4 years old when dad died. As I'm making this web page, today, November   
   19, 2004. The brother of the sculptor of my father's bust here being unveiled   
   in Havana, Cuba in 1953, called me today: Sculptor Julio Fuentes Pino made the   
   bust to honor my    
   father. The people made a collection in order to make this possible. Lolo   
   Villalobos, Mayor of Guanabacoa unveiled it. It is at the entrance of La   
   Carretera Central: Calzada de Güines and San Miguel del Padrón, by the Park of   
   La Virgen del Camino: Havana,   
    Cuba. I was 5 years old, mom and my brother Tomasito looking and wondering.   
   When the communists were collecting bronce to melt and send it to Russia, the   
   people complainted to the communist government, they told the regime that he   
   was a good man, that    
   they should not remove the bust...It survived the dictatorial communist   
   regime: Thank GOD!   
      
   My father was the type of doctor that if it was, Friday at 11 PM. or Sunday at   
   3 AM. thundering and rainning, he will go see any of his patients who called   
   him...He gave his own blood in transfussions, to save some of his sick   
   patients, he did not charge    
   anything and bought the medicines for the needy...That is why the bust and a   
   library.   
      
      
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