Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel sent floral offerings to the tomb where the remains of Cuban independence fighter José Martí (1853-1895) rest, on Sunday, on the 171st anniversary of his birth.

A group of people from Santiago de Cuba, workers, members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution and the Revolutionary Armed Forces arrived at the Santa Ifigenia necropolis in Santiago de Cuba to honor the memory of the National Hero.

Flowers were also laid at the cemetery on behalf of the Council of State and Ministers and the Cuban people.

The ceremony was attended by members of the CC-PCC, José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, first secretary of that organization in the province, and Beatriz Johnson Urrutia, governor.

Santiagueros pay tribute to Martí

Niurka Bell, member of the Executive Bureau of the Provincial Committee of the PCC that attends to the political and ideological sphere, recalled the outstanding writer and revolutionary of the 19th century and patented the firmness of the new generation.