Thirty young Cubans reissued the route transited by the independence fighter Jose Martí, after disembarking in Cajobabo Beach and before falling in combat in Dos Rios, on May 19, 1895.
Thirty young Cubans reissued the route transited by the independence fighter Jose Martí, after disembarking in Cajobabo Beach and before falling in combat in Dos Rios, on May 19, 1895.
From the south eastern coast in the Guantanamo municipality of Imías, where he carried out the disembark 120 years ago, on April 11, walkers coming from different regions in the country undertook the path and would visit the sites that hosted the Cuban National Hero.
Now the expedition include students, workers and peasants, including six children of this province in which Marti, leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party stayed after his return to the homeland, after a hard work abroad in search of resources for the independence struggle.
Here the guide and organizer of the Necessary War against the Spanish colonialism became a soldier. He was promoted to Major General of the Liberation Army, shared with the poor, words and shelter, and suffered the loss of valuable fighters.
Those who evoke history in the footsteps of the revolutionary leader, also come from Havana, Villa Clara, Ciego de Avila, Camagüey, Holguín and Granma, and are the most members of the Cuban Young Communist League (UJC) as well as the Marti Young Movement (MJM), sponsor of the tour.
The tour will conclude next May 19 will and will cover almost 292 miles on foot, 11 days in Guantanamo territory and seven days in the provinces Santiago de Cuba and Granma.
In the first of these provinces the limit will be the area known as Vuelta Corta, one of the last camps where Marti stayed and where he received the Cuban flag from the Guantanamo Mambi leader Pedro Agustin Perez.
Yusuam Palacios, president of MJM, saw off the troop in Cajobabo and referred to the motivations to remember the journey in which the most universal of all Cubans bequeathed, with his memories, an important political and literary testament, revealing the facts taken place in these land and what was brewing for the future of the nation.
Palacios, who participated in the May Day parade in Guantanamo, said that the new issue of the Marti Route will also be a tribute to the workers in their day, will welcome the UJC´s Tenth Congress and will close concurrently with the closing of the National Seminar of Marti Studies, which will be held in Granma.
Source: Granma