Alfredo Hornedo y Suárez was the owner of the Blanquita theater which opened in 1950, now the Karl Marx Theatre, and the Sports Casino, which is today the social circle Cristino Naranjo.

The Rosita De Hornedo has a semi-covered Porte-cochère with a lightly sloping ramp that brings automobiles to the front entrance of the building.

[12] The apartments on the lower 10 floors have a living room, kitchenette, and a balcony on the north side units, and strip windows overlooking Miramar's first avenue.

In contrast with low-rise and single-family houses, apartment blocks can accommodate more inhabitants per unit of area of land and decrease the cost of municipal infrastructure.

Influential examples include Le Corbusier's "housing unit" his Unité d'Habitation, repeated in various European cities starting with his Cité radieuse in Marseille (1947–52), constructed of béton brut, rough-cast concrete, as steel for framework was unavailable in post-war France.

The south elevation is part of, along with the detached structure which allows for a curtain wall construction, 3 out of the Five Points of Architecture: 1) The free designing of the ground plan—the absence of supporting walls—means the building is unrestrained in its internal use.

However, the effects of light on visual comfort as well as solar heat gain in a building are more difficult to control when using large amounts of glass infill.

He was later placed back into Cuba, posing as a physics student at the University of Santiago to help prepare the ground for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

In 1961, under CIA sponsorship, Basulto infiltrated Cuba for a commando operation intended to sabotage an alleged missile site, a mission which was ultimately aborted.

In August 1962 he was involved in an expedition of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil which took a boat to Cuba and fired a 20 mm cannon at the Rosita De Hornedo hotel, though nobody was killed in the incident.