Raul Castro Ruz, first Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, and the President of State Councils and Ministers of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel, member of the Political Bureau of the Party, presided over the Demajagua National Park in the eastern province of Granma, the act for 150 years of the beginning of the struggles for the independence of Cuba.

More than five thousand inhabitants of that area met on October 10, 2018 in the historic site that preserves the ruins of the mill where the patrician Carlos Manuel de Céspedes gave his slaves freedom and called to fight for the emancipation of the Homeland.

The laying of a floral offering and the firing of 21 drum salvos preceded the cultural moment in which dancers and actors recalled Céspedes’ Republican Anthem and fragments of the 10 October Manifesto.

The company Codanza interpreted the choreography raising of lawns in his ingenuity Demajagua and the trio the walkers sang El Mambi by Luis Casas Romero.

Where the Cuban Revolution was born

We come to ask permission to the History to enter in one of its sacred enclosures, affirmed the president Miguel Diaz-Canel in the act by the 150 years of the uprising of Demajagua.

Accompanied by Raúl, the Cuban leader recalled that Carlos Manuel de Céspedes raised the soul of a newborn town against the metropolis, forever undermining the decaying foundations of a slave society.

Here, the Cuban Revolution was born 150 years ago and a century later, Fidel marked his unique character, underlined Diaz-Canel and then explain the contribution of the Commander in Chief in the understanding of the actions of Céspedes.

The Cuban president affirmed in the same place of the uprising that the reflections of a passionate of History as Fidel were then an invitation to revisit the dramatic course of the process initiated a century before.