Yesterday there was patriotically commemorated in
Cabañas, Mariel, the 51st anniversary of
the massacre of 22 youngsters, victims of Batista’s
bloody dictatorship.
A mass pilgrimage marched to the mausoleum
erected in honor to those martyrs. A group of
students hoisted a huge Cuban flag and they placed
wreaths of flowers with the name of each of the
revolutionary martyrs in the monument. With 3-gun
artillery salvo and the vibrant notes of the
National Anthem there started the solemn activity.
Members from the national culture, local artists
and art instructors participated in the soirée,
together with other comrades who paid tribute to
their compatriots, vilely murdered by the hired
assassins of the regime.
This event which moved by its barbarism the
entire Island and particularly those settlers of
this locality is commemorated every November 20th.
Jose Manuel Galarde, combatant from July 26th
Movement in the zone, evoked the events in those
days and at the same time demanded the government of
the United States to put an end to the blockade to
Cuba and free the Cuban Five compatriots unjustly
imprisoned in the empire.
The Municipal General Secretary of the Young
Communist League, Damarys Laferte Valdes, took the
floor on behalf the youth about the commitment they
have with the continuity of the revolutionary
process, and exhorted to keep on improving the
function of the organization and focus its actions
to contribute to the country’s development, salute
the 9th Congress and never ever
disappoint the loyalty to the Revolution’s
principles.
There attended the activity, Antonio Ovidio
Fernandez, member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party, Isabel Horta Llanes, member of the
Provincial Bureau of the Party, ® General Division
Jose Morfa Gonzalez, President of the provincial of
the Association of Combatant of the Cuban Revolution,
relatives of the martyrs and other leaders of the
territory.
The closing speech was in charge to Cristian
Alvarez Rodriguez, member of the Party Bureau from
Mariel, who referred about the sad chapter of our
history with this terrible crime and expressed it is
just comparable with the war policy and tortures
performed just in the XXI century by the North
American empire in Iraq, Afghanistan and other
countries in the world.
He also mentioned, the overwhelming victory of
Cuba in the United Nation Organization with the
majority condemn of the international community to
the blockade and he said the Cubans will continue
fighting together with our youth in this battle of
ideas inspired in the example of those young persons,
marching towards a better world, rectifying our
mistakes and building an impregnable bastion.
This Cabañas’ massacre will never be forgotten.
These youngsters, immortalized, will live for ever
in the heart of their Homeland.
el HABANERO