Angel Valdes | January 6, 2023
59 years after the patriotic deed of January 9, 1964, Joaquín Vásquez, from the Canal Sentinels Association, provided details about the acts that will be carried out next Monday, remembering the martyrs who gave their lives in the fight for national sovereignty. .
“This 59th anniversary should serve as a clear reflection that we have an agenda of activities, the Museum of Contemporary Art has an exhibition starting this Friday morning, the Canal Museum has a walk this Sunday leaving from the National Institute, the Canal Sentinels Association will have an act in the monument that we built as a tribute to this patriotic feat, this government, just as it honored the memory of December 20 by declaring a day of national mourning, this government also created an evaluative commission to honor those heroes who are already alive the descendants of the martyrs” expressed Vásquez
He also called for parents to talk to their children about what happened on January 9, 1964 and not be forgotten by generations “We invite you to talk as a family about what happened on January 9, it is very difficult to avoid transfers to the beaches, to the interior for the long weekend, but talk to your children and grandchildren about this patriotic feat because in the calendar for the recovery of national sovereignty the date of January 9 was written in blood on this calendar by the recovery of national sovereignty and it is important that this spilled blood cannot remain in generational ingratitude”.
