GRANMA, Cuba. – Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia led along with the highest authorities of Granma province, the popular homage to Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in the Revolution Square of the city of Bayamo.

The tribute to the patrician on occasion of the 144 years of his fall in combat, included the lifting ceremony of the Cuban flag and the one he flied as he rose in La Demajagua sugar factory. Floral offerings were placed on the bases of the statue of Cespedes and the bust of Perucho Figueredo, author of the Cuban National Anthem.

Aldo Daniel Naranjo, president of the Union of Cuban Historians in Granma, made a broad outline of the life, work and legacy of the initiator of the Cuban libertarian struggles150 years ago.

Naranjo affirmed that it is fair to call Cespedes the hero of Demajagua, monarch of freedom, the Cuban Bolivar and man of marble, as Marti described him.

A Congratulation to Candidates for Delegates and Parliamentarians

Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia addressed items of the beginning of the Cuban independent struggles, the neocolonial stage and the war of liberation, in the homage offered to Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in Bayamo in occasion of the 144th anniversary of his fall in combat.

Garcia Frias congratulated the candidates for parliamentarians and delegates to the Provincial Assembly, and said the next National Assembly must be in line with the moment we live, as the empire strengthens its campaign against Cuba and makes the blockade stronger.

He said, “We cannot trust one second of those follies of the current American Administration, as he wants to destroy the Revolution because Cuba is powerful in ideas and an example for the world.”

Guillermo Garcia said, “We have achieved the dream of Cespedes on freedom, and to keep it we must work and produce more.”