HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 14 (ACN) In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel saluted the 54th birthday of the cartoon character Elpidio Valdés.
“Browsing the Internet I found out that Wednesday marked the 54th birthday of Col. Elpidio Valdés of the Liberation Army, with whom many generations have grown up. Along with this brave mambi fighter, his girlfriend Maria Silvia, and his horse Palmiche, we would often shout, ‘Long live free Cuba!’,” ,” he wrote.
Elpidio Valdés was created on August 14, 1970 by caricaturist, illustrator, comic strip artist and scriptwriter Juan Padrón, who said he was working on a comic strip of the samur