Eloína Miyares, the mother of the Cuban Basic School Dictionary

Eloína Miyares Bermúdez died on July 26 in Santiago de Cuba. She was the linguist who led the creation of the Diccionario Básico Escolar / Cuban Basic School Dictionary . See and consult here its electronic version .

She created with Vitelio Ruiz Hernández a new method to teach orthography and pronunciation at school. They also participated in the creation of the Centro de Lingüística Aplicada (CLA) in Santiago de Cuba, and in the organization of the 14 editions of the Simposium de Comunicación Social, an international congress on Linguistics, Lexicography and Computational Linguistics..

Here is the video Eloína sent us in 2014 for the 25th anniversary of  IXA group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvB1fp1Uis0

Thanks for your work, Eloína!

Eloína Miyares Bermúdez in Wikipedia
Eloína Miyares Bermúdez in Ecured.