Tribute to General Leandro Gómez was held in the Plaza that bears his name
With the organization of the Nationalist Department of Cerro Largo, the traditional tribute to General Leandro Gómez was held on Thursday, January 2.
At the beginning of the new year, 160 years passed since the death of one of the greatest white leaders.
“Once again, as on every January 2, we come, on the day of his physical disappearance, to pay tribute to undoubtedly one of our great leaders, a hero of the Homeland as history marks him, although many times not “The history of General Leandro Gómez is repeated as it should be repeated.” synthesized the Agr. Eng. Gonzalo Mestre.
ALMOST HALF A CENTURY REMEMBERING THE DATE
“For 48 years, in Cerro Largo we have remembered the patriot every January 2, the man who always evoked the freedom of this country. A man who had his journey from the time of Oribe in Argentina, as a merchant, as a soldier. Later he came to Uruguay, always in favor of the Republic. “He had the gesture of buying Artigas’s saber at an auction, he had the formation of a technical school in Salto” stood out Mauro Iriart.
“There is a great variety of acts of patriotism, of a great man, in the sense that it did not make anything difficult for him when he had to play for what it meant in Uruguay at that time, brought by a man of Oribe’s stature” said the person in charge of carrying out a historical review about the honored leader.
He also said that the National Party was the true one founded by the Republic with citizens of these characteristics.
“Leandro Gómez was a man of multiple activities. He was appointed in Salto and had to be Head of the northern region with seats in Paysandú. From there he showed the world what a soldier meant to maintain the freedom of a country.” the white leader of Cerro Largo later highlighted.
“Sometimes we don’t value it. At that time we were sandwiched between two Empires: on one side were the Portuguese, the Brazilians, and on the other side were the Argentines with Miter who also had the intention of taking over the rest of America.” story.
“General Leandro Gómez had to put up with 600 men” he remembered. “Today should also be a day to pay all possible tributes to the soldiers who accompanied him. Many withdrew, left, but nevertheless those people were left watching from the trenches, from very difficult places, without food, without clothing, fighting for freedom.” Mauro Iriart said at the tribute ceremony for the 160th anniversary of the death of General Leandro Gómez organized by the Board of Directors of the Nationalist Department of Cerro Largo.
