On the 63rd anniversary of the triumph of the First of January, the main leaders of the province of Santiago de Cuba paid tribute today, to the Leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz before the monolith stone that treasures his ashes, in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery of this city ..
Leading the tribute on behalf of the Cuban people, the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) José Ramón Monteagudo, first secretary of the PCC in the territory, and Beatriz Johnson, its governor, in addition to Antonio Guerrero, Hero of the Republic and one of the five.
After the ceremony to change the guard of honor, Nora Leidis Pecerril, a journalism student, declared the collage of poems In a single fortune and the participants placed lilies and roses on the grave of the beloved Commander-in-Chief.
Later they deposited white flowers to the National Hero, José Martí in his admirable Monument and in the pantheons erected to the founding fathers of the nation Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Mariana Grajales, all located in the central patrimonial area of the necropolis.
Adolfo Pérez Pestana, president of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution in the province, told the Cuban News Agency that he always remembers moments in his life as a fighter and founder of the Rebel Army, alongside Fidel in the unfortunate days of the Sierra Maestra and clashes with the enemy.
He recognized the value and example of the Leader to whom the celebration is dedicated today in Cuba and when despite the cruel measures of the economic, financial and commercial blockade of the United States on the Island, his legacy, unity and firmness of ideas are maintained. in the village
