Baire, Santiago de Cuba. -Once again, the mambisa reveille and the call of Freedom or Death echoed from the Revolution Park of Baire, along with the words of Colonel Florencio Salcedo, 130 years ago: “Enough of cockfights, it is time to fight with men and not with animals for the independence of Cuba. If you want to see Cuba free, come with us to the square”.
This is how the Homeland celebrated, in Baire, the date that marked the continuity of the struggle for independence -February 24, 1895, with the beginning of the Necessary War conceived by José Martí-, in an act headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, Roberto Morales Ojeda; Party and Government leaders at different levels, and military chiefs.
The commitment of the new generations with the Revolution, unique, by historical continuity, was ratified by the young Yetsi Gamez Marín.
That date, whose unquestionable symbolism is maintained throughout history -as in the proclamation of the 1976 and 2019 constitutions-, was “the demonstration that the flame of rebellion had not been extinguished (…) charged with sense for justice (…) consensus and unity”, expressed Roberto Morales Ojeda, in the central words.
That is why we returned to Baire, he affirmed, “as the Commander-in-Chief did days before the triumph of the Revolution (…) and we confirmed that our struggle has not ended (…) Cuba requires that we do things right. The spirit of Baire needs to be multiplied”.
Floral offerings were placed by the President before the busts and the obelisk located in the Revolution Park -built by the veterans in the first years of the Republic-, and the people made the traditional and multitudinous pilgrimage, led by the cavalry to the local cemetery, where four generals and several fighters of the independence war rest.
It could not miss, in such a significant day, the homage to the Apostle José Martí in his mausoleum, located in the patrimonial cemetery Santa Ifigenia. There they placed floral offerings sent by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution; by President Díaz-Canel; by the head of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández, and one on behalf of the people of Cuba.