Dignity legacy travels Camagüey

The replica of the machete of one of the most notable leaders of the independence of Cuba, the Bronze Titan, Antonio Maceo Grajales, toured this province as part of the Heredos del Machete route, escorted by the new generations of Cubans that today make the legacy of intransigence of the Mambí (independence fighter) hero and rise as the heirs of the conquests of the revolution.

On the afternoon of March 7, the symbolic weapon of the rebel martyr arrived in the municipality of Baraguá, belonging to the province of Ciego de Ávila, where he was handed over to him from the highest authorities of that town to the president of the UJC, of ??Camagüey, Heinier Lian Carvajo Baxter. From that site, the relay continued the adventures of the maceistic legacy, transformed into metal, to the IPVC Máximo Gómez Báez.

From that prestigious institution, the students made an honor guard to the machete, and an exchange occurred, in the theater, which was attended by the president of the Union of Historians of Cuba, in the region, Fernando Manzo Alonso.

The specialist referred to the young audience the importance of "receiving the machete of the Bronze Titan, which in the vicinity of Baraguá's protest, we remember how this man of humble extraction tries to" save "war by rejecting peace without independence proposed by the Zanjón pact."

On day eight, the advance of the machete continued, this time until an anti -imperialist tribune held in the Plaza Maceo, which was attended by the first secretary of the party in the territory, Federico Hernández Hernández, the governor in the demarcation, Jorge Enrique Sutil Sanabria, among other authorities of the town, to reaffirm the support of the youth to the revolutionary process.

"We are the continuators of the feats of the insurgents and the will, the strength and firmness of the assailants of the Moncada Barracks, of Martí, of Fidel, of Raúl and of all those who faced the evils and social inequalities, for the defense of the homeland," said the student of the José Luis Tassende school, Liz Alma Delgado González.

The president of the UJC in the region, Heinier Liam, said that “with the return of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, he lashed out against Cuba with the country's re -existing list in the list of sponsoring nations of terrorism, the resurgence of the financial siege and the establishment of a policy that deepens the lack of the Cuban people. However, in this context, the unit moves us, and with the Maceo machete in our hands and the momentum of Baraguá in our veins, we proclaim the world that Cuba lives.”

The Herederos del Machete, which meets a tour from the West to the East, commemorates the restart of the struggles for the independence of Cuba, on February 24 of 1895 and the protest of Baraguá, on March 15 of 1878, an act of rebellion that demonstrated the intransigence of Maceo, and of the Cubans, before the foreign interference.