Tribute to Revolution Leader Fidel Castro at Cuban Historical Sites
Expressions of admiration, respect and loyalty toward Fidel Castro characterized on Thursday the activities carried out at various historical sites of the eastern Cuban province of Granma, on the occasion of the 83rd birthday of the Revolution leader.
Tours, talks, conferences and artistic presentations were held in places where patriotic struggles took place in the 19th and 20th centuries.
La Demajagua National Park, in the municipality of Manzanillo, where the country’s independence wars began in 1868, was visited by people of different ages.
The head of the institution, César Martín, recalled that the historical bell at La Demajagua has been taken away from there four times in order to preserve it, at the request of Fidel - in 1947, 1987,
1991 and 1995.
Social workers from the municipality of Niquero went to Las Coloradas, where Fidel and the rest of the Granma yacht’s expeditionary force arrived in 1956.
Specialists from Las Coloradas Museum explained the young visitors and to border guard combatants in the nearby town of Cabo Cruz facets of the work of the revolutionary leader.
Similar actions took place at Cinco Palmas, where the heads of the newly born Rebel Army met again at the end of 1956, after two weeks of dispersal and hounding.
Young people from several provinces reiterated their revolutionary commitments at the museum of La Plata, in the heart of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, a place that sheltered the leadership of the guerrillas in 1958.
Fidel’s birthday was also celebrated with songs and words of appreciation. The celebration took place at the house where Founding Father Carlos Manuel de Céspedes was born, in the city of Bayamo.
Tours, talks, conferences and artistic presentations were held in places where patriotic struggles took place in the 19th and 20th centuries.
La Demajagua National Park, in the municipality of Manzanillo, where the country’s independence wars began in 1868, was visited by people of different ages.
The head of the institution, César Martín, recalled that the historical bell at La Demajagua has been taken away from there four times in order to preserve it, at the request of Fidel - in 1947, 1987,
1991 and 1995.
Social workers from the municipality of Niquero went to Las Coloradas, where Fidel and the rest of the Granma yacht’s expeditionary force arrived in 1956.
Specialists from Las Coloradas Museum explained the young visitors and to border guard combatants in the nearby town of Cabo Cruz facets of the work of the revolutionary leader.
Similar actions took place at Cinco Palmas, where the heads of the newly born Rebel Army met again at the end of 1956, after two weeks of dispersal and hounding.
Young people from several provinces reiterated their revolutionary commitments at the museum of La Plata, in the heart of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, a place that sheltered the leadership of the guerrillas in 1958.
Fidel’s birthday was also celebrated with songs and words of appreciation. The celebration took place at the house where Founding Father Carlos Manuel de Céspedes was born, in the city of Bayamo.
Source:
ACN
Date:
17/08/2009