With the attendance of Rafael Pérez Fernández, first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in the province and Rafael Santisteban Pozo, president of the National Association of Small Farmers, the Guantanamo people commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Signature of the Lima Act.
The signing of this document on November 11, 1934 is considered a victory for the Realengo 18 peasants after more than ten years of confrontation with the attempts to demarcate and expand national and foreign landowners companies protected by the governments of the Neocolonial Republic.
In this place in eastern Cuba, in 1934 more than 4 thousand peasants supported by the Communist Party and the labor movement obtained weapons to fight the eviction, proclaiming with the cry of Earth or Blood, the energetic resistance that forced representatives of the national government to negotiate and sign a document where they gave up their ambitions.
Onelbis Rivera Samón, teacher of Realengo 18, expressed her pride of her work due to the Revolution that as of January 1959 changed the lives of the inhabitants of the area forever, first with the delivery of land ownership to the peasants and then with the creation of schools, hospitals and other social works that they enjoy today.
In turn, Manuel Pardo Martínez, a young man of the Luis Rustán Credit and Services Cooperative, expressed the will of the new generations of farmers to continue Fidel's legacy and defend, by producing for the people, the conquests achieved thanks to the struggle of men as the leader Lino de las Mercedes Álvarez.
At the end of the act for the 85th anniversary of the struggles of Realengo 18, Yanila Sarduy Martínez, a member of the National Bureau of ANAP, valued these actions as examples of the worker-peasant alliance that makes possible the survival of the Cuban socialist model during 60 years.