Cuba’s youth alight brightly, for José Martí
Cuba was once again brightly lit, with blazing torches, for our national hero José Martí, on the eve of another anniversary of his birth, and with the energy of youth, accompanied by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, as well as Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez

Author: Maby Martinez Rodriguez | informacion@granmai.cu
january 28, 2022 10:01:09

Photo: Estudio Revolución
For the person who brought so much light to the homeland, there was light, across the country, in his honor.
Cuba was again brightly lit, with blazing torches, for our national hero José Martí, on the night of January 27. On the eve of another anniversary of his birth, the 169th, the homeland’s youth returned to the streets, accompanied by the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raul Castro Ruz, as well as Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.
The clock had not yet struck eight, and the University of Havana’s Grand Stairway was filled with a sea of students who, under their masks, let the irrepressible energy of their age shine, yes, and also their commitment, as deep as it is joyful, to this Revolution of which they are essence, pillar and continuity.
This was emphasized by Karla Santana, president of the University Student Federation, when she called on her peers, this generation of young Cubans – who understand that our national project offers a universe of justice greater than any other offered by capitalism – to believe in the future.
The march, the traditional pilgrimage to the Fragua Martiana (where Martí was imprisoned as a rebellious adolescent) serves as a symbol of another march toward the inclusive ideals this young revolutionary generation defends.

Photo: Estudio Revolución

“We want and we must transform society, and do so to the beat of equity, of socialist democracy, people’s power, inclusion, to the beat of women, blacks, workers, neighborhoods, and humble consciousness,” stated Karla Santana, who invited, “those who dream, the foolish and the indispensable, the militants of life who live their youth afire,” to participate in this year’s tenth Congress of the Federation of University Students.
Then, over their heads, the torches were lit, and she advanced – accompanied also by Commander José Ramón Machado Ventura; the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández; Comandante de la Revolución Ramiro Valdés Menéndez; Party Secretary of Organization and Cadre Policy, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and other leaders – in tight ranks, alight with the fire of youth, with the dream come true of those who marched for the first time, on January 27, 1953, with Fidel, on the occasion of Martí’s Centenary.