“Our emotional tribute to Camilo Cienfuegos, a very Cuban hero of the Cuban Revolution, whose brief passage through life was so intense and exemplary that he still accompanies and guides us,” the president noted on X.

The head of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo, also paid tribute to Cienfuegos on the same platform and extolled his heroism.

“Che (Guevara) described him as the most brilliant of all the guerrillas and, with full force, Fidel (Castro) expressed that there are many Camilos in the people, aware of the daily heroism of our people,” he stressed.

Cienfuegos was trusted by the maximum leader of the last Cuban liberation struggle, Fidel Castro, and by Argentine-Cuban Commander Ernesto Che Guevara for his temerity and sacrifices in the battles against the Fulgencio Batista tyranny (1952-1958).

About him, Fidel Castro said that The Lord of the Vanguard – a term with which Camilo is also remembered – loved difficulties, knew how to face them and was capable of performing feats in the most incredible circumstances.

Together with Commander Guevara, he led the liberating invasion from east to west, and was the undisputed hero of the battle of Yaguajay, in Sancti Spíritus province.

Born in 1932, in the Havana neighborhood of Lawton, and physically disappeared on October 28, 1959, Camilo was one of the expedition members of the Granma yacht and was promoted to commander of the Rebel Army in the eastern mountains in the midst of the war against Batista’s army.

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