Díaz-Canel presides over national event in Playita de Cajobabo

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today led the national commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the landing of José Martí, Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, and other patriots at Playita de Cajobabo.

Also in attendance were Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Party Central Committee; Yoel Pérez García, First Secretary of the PCC in the province; Alis Azahares Torreblanca, governor of Guantánamo, and the main authorities of the municipality of Imías, where this sacred place of the nation is located.

At the commemoration, prominent young people from the town relived the expeditionaries' arrival on the eastern coast, near which an obelisk stands, commemorating the feat, at the foot of rocky outcrops.

Later, Díaz-Canel held an exchange with 130 distinguished young people from across the country who arrived in Guantánamo yesterday. They toured the mausoleum of the Mambisado in La Confianza; the Eastern Battalion of the Border Brigade, Antonio Maceo Order; and held a vigil in Cajobabo, awaiting the glorious date.

On April 11, 1895, at around 10:30 p.m., José Martí landed on the Cuban coast under a downpour and a red moon, along with Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, Brigadiers Francisco Borrero and Ángel Guerra, Colonel Marcos del Rosario, and Captain César Salas.

The patriots arrived to join the war that began on February 24, 1895, with little thought other than fighting for national independence.