Fidel, we are following your footsteps
The tribute was headed by the members of the Central Committee, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz and Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, first secretary of the Party in the province, and governor in the territory, respectively.

Author: Eduardo Palomares Calderón | internet@granma.cu

August 13, 2022 11:08:42

In a solemn military ceremony, the floral offering was placed on behalf of the people of Cuba.
In a solemn military ceremony, a floral offering was placed on behalf of the people of Cuba.

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«Happy birthday, dear Fidel. We feel you among us in the challenging hours of the last days and in the inalienable dreams of always. We follow your footsteps. Overcome! ».

Revealing this feeling expressed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Cannel Bermúdez, through Twitter to the world, was the tribute paid by the people of Santiago to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in his 96th birthday this August 13, before the monument rock that houses his ashes.

The tribute was headed by the members of the Central Committee, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz and Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, first secretary of the Party in the province, and governor in the territory, respectively, who dedicated bouquets of flowers followed by relatives of the unforgettable Leader of the Revolution, before the monolith, in the Santa Ifigenia heritage cemetery.

Faithful to that fighting spirit, courage, sensitivity and dignity that exemplified his life, hundreds of people from Santiago, Cubans from various provinces and foreign visitors paraded, with roses in their hands, a gesture that since that December 4, 2016 in which Army General Raúl Castro Ruz deposited the urn with the name: FIDEL, 2,500,000 people have revered.

As Raúl affirmed at the evening held in the Plaza Mayor General Antonio Maceo, the night before that historic moment, that those who had fought so hard would never surrender to rest and from the Heroic City “he calls on us to guarantee the independence and sovereignty of the homeland”, just a few hours ago the heroes of Matanzas proclaimed that Fidel was in victory.


Along with the Party leadership, the governor of the province, Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, was present.

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