HAVANA, Cuba.-The book There Comes Fidel, chronicles on the passage through Cuba of the funeral procession of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, was launched this Thursday in Nicolas Guillen Hall of San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, the main headquarters of the 27th International Book Fair of Havana.

Written by young journalists Yunet Lopez Ricardo and Wilmer Rodriguez Fernandez and published by Verde Olivo publishing house, the book tells from stories by many Cubans, the posthumous homage Fidel received during the nine days of national mourning.

In Nicolas Guillen hall, at San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, Doctor of Sciences Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov, titular professor in the University of Information Science presented the volume.

Before an audience made of chiefs and officers of de Revolutionary Armed Force, cadets and soldiers, Castro Smirnov said: “It is the first time that two young people loving Fidel write, even without having known him personally; a work of love made four-handed whose title is a phrase that everybody said when passing the courtship: There comes Fidel.”

He also expressed the certainty that the historical leader of the Revolution “did not go, he is and will be” among us. And he added: “I’m Fidel. My father is Fidel. My grandfather is and will always be the eternal and undefeated Fidel. My name is Fidel, and my life´s name is Fidel. My thoughts, my dreams, my yearnings, are also called Fidel.”

In the seventeen chronicles included in There comes Fidel, Wilmer and Yunet tell their memories and those of dozens of Cubans on the passage through cities, villages and bateyes of Fidel´s funeral procession from Havana to Santiago de Cuba. The 174 pages of the book show more than one hundred color photographs on the sad event, where the tribute of a people to their leader is appreciated.
Raul Perez Torres, Minister of Culture of Ecuador, attended the launching of the book.