CAlthough he will not be in his hometown, the man from Camajuaní, Villa Clara, of which he never tired of talking about; to rest in Cuba is to be safe.
That feeling was breathed in the ceremony of placement of his remains, in the Basilica of San Francisco de Asis, in which the patriot, the family man, the father devoted to his own, the friend who cultivated loyalty without calculating distances, was evoked by the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, Fernando González Llort.
The remains of the tireless Cuban, of the revolutionary who defended the Homeland from “the entrails of the monster”, as José Martí said, were deposited together with those of his wife Miriam Álvarez Lesnik, in the Mother Teresa of Calcutta garden, by his daughter Vivian Lesnik, accompanied by the Commander of the Rebel Army José Ramón Machado Ventura.
Floral tributes from the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied the heartfelt farewell.
When speaking of Max Lesnik, one cannot fail to mention his courage and commitment to Cuba, despite the many death threats he received, said Magda Resik, first vice-president of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. She also recalled Lesnik’s close friendship with Havana historian Eusebio Leal, whom she described as innate conspirators in favor of Cuba, which is why, as a last wish, he rests in the same place as his friend.
Present at the tribute were the members of the Political Bureau, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Teresa Amarelle Boué, Secretary General of the FMC; the member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, and the member of the Central Committee and Vice-Chief of its Ideological Department, Marydé Fernández López, as well as family and friends.