Cuba: Capitol building to host parliament again

Published April 26, 2013 5:18pm ET



HAVANA (AP) — Havana’s Capitol building will play host to Cuba’s parliament for the first time since 1959, when it came to be seen as a symbol of the old regime thrown out of power that year by Fidel Castro’s revolution.

City Historian Eusebio Leal, whose office has been overseeing the multi-year restoration of the building, said this week that lawmakers of the unicameral National Assembly will move into offices there.

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