With several offerings floral This Thursday the 59th anniversary of the constitutionalist battle fought on a day like today, December 19, 1965, in the Matum hotel of Santiago.
He tributemade on the statue of Juan María Lora Fernándezlocated on the esplanade of the aforementioned hotel, was carried out by representatives of the ministries of Defense and Education, as well as the provincial government of Santiagothe Colonel Foundation Juan María Lora Fernández and the Permanent Commission of National Anniversaries.
The president of the Permanent Commission of National AnniversariesJuan Uribe, expressed the need to keep this historic event alive.
The battle
When reviewing what happened 59 years ago, the historian Robert Espinal remembered that the Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamano and the constitutionalists had moved to Santiago to attend a mass at the Nuestra Señora La Altagracia sanctuary parish, to commemorate the six months since the death of Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez in the assault on the National Palace.
After the religious ceremony, the constitutionalists moved to the Matum hotelwhere they were shot at by military contrary to those who promoted the revolution of April 1965.
“In that battle the colonel died Juan María Lora Fernández“, said.
The discursive part of the event included interventions by the governor of SantiagoRosa Santos, and the regional director of the Ministry of Education, Marieta Diaz.
In addition to the civil authorities and militarythe event was attended by relatives of Colonels Francisco Alberto Caamano and Juan María Lora Fernández.
