MIAMI, United States. – The secretary of the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, recalled this week that “there will be no transportation” to reach the concentration points of the march this May Day, and suggested that Cubans arrive there on foot, by bicycle or using animal traction.
“The people, the workers, the people, will mobilize on foot and use the wealth of popular initiatives. What, for example? Well, our Communist Youth has convened the so-called bicycle rides, [entonces] that our young people attend on their bicycles”, said the regime official banana in the Round table last April 25.
He also added that there was “a group of places, especially in rural communities” where the people would agree to the concentration of the people “through means of animal traction.”
“In other places they will use electric vehicles [de los] that we have today; and thus there is a multifactorial open range of initiatives that will give these acts color, beauty, massiveness… As always, May Day reflects the majority commitment of the people to their Revolution”, added Guilarte de Nacimiento.
According to the official of the Cuban regime, “what it is about is having rationality and austerity in the resource that we do not have today.” “I want to ratify,” he said, “maintaining the decision of its commemoration in conditions of rationality and austerity.”
For the first time in the last six decades, the Cuban regime announced that it would celebrate the central act for May Day on the Malecón in Havana and not in the Plaza de la Revolución. According to Guilarte de Nacimiento, the change is due to the fuel crisis that crosses the country.
The leader summoned the workers residing in the municipalities of Cerro, Old Havana, Centro Habana, Playa and Plaza to the event.
According to the head honcho of the CTC, these people “traditionally moved on foot to the Plaza de la Revolución,” so this time they will be able to do the same to get to the Malecón.
Guilarte de Nacimiento indicated that the rest of the territories of the capital “will carry out their own acts” that same Monday “in squares and emblematic places.”
Some 120,000 Havanans from the five aforementioned municipalities are expected to participate in the central act for May Day, to which will be added more than 1,000 foreign delegates who will participate in the International Solidarity Meeting with Cuba, as well as “outstanding workers who received the title of Labor Heroes of the Republic and other state decorations”.
