The General Command of the Army, declared a National Monument in 1978, was the site chosen by guerrilla leader Fidel Castro in 1958 to establish the headquarters of the rebel forces, which defeated the Fulgencio Batista regime at the end of that year.
The president of the Republic and his companions commemorated the 65th anniversary of Fidel’s return, together with more than 300 young people, to that historic site on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Revolution on January 7, 1961.
The tour, called “With Fidel (Castro) in the Heights,” sparked a broad exchange of ideas between the young people and Díaz-Canel, who stated that the United States blockade is a unilateral and unjust policy that punishes the country for making a Revolution to emancipate itself.
In this regard, he noted that Cuba does not deserve to be blockaded, because it has never attacked the United States, which has imposed the blockade unilaterally and has to lift it without giving anything in return.
Accompanied by the secretary of Organization of the Communist Party, Roberto Morales; the first secretary of the Young Communist League (UJC), Meibis Estevez; and Granma’s top authorities, the president asked the youths to “do something every day for the benefit of the Revolution.” The representatives of the youth organization expressed satisfaction with the direct contact with this decisive stage of Cuba’s history, which encourages and provides energy to overcome the challenges of the current historic context, they pointed out.
At difficult times, the youth never gave up, and will never give up,” pointed out the top UJC leader, who took up the Cuban president’s idea that the journey meant an encounter with the living history of the nation.
Estevez addressed concepts such as the ideological challenge and the need to walk together to guarantee the victory of Cuba’s social and political project.
The young people dealt with issues like production, innovation, spirituality, patriotic love and the need to systematize these exchanges with Cuba’s history that contribute to strengthening revolutionary convictions.
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