At the event, prominent young people from the town reenacted the arrival of the expeditionaries to this site on Cuba’s eastern coast, where an obelisk at the foot of the cliffs perpetuates the feat that enabled these independence heroes to join the war that began on February 24, 1895.

Later, the president spoke with 130 prominent young people from across the country who arrived the day before in Guantánamo, where they visited the mausoleum to the mambis in La Confianza; The Eastern Battalion of the Border Brigade, Order Antonio Maceo, held a vigil in Cajobabo, awaiting the glorious date, reported the Cuban News Agency. On April 11, 1895, at around 10:30 p.m., José Martí reached the Cuban shores after a difficult journey, along with Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, Brigadiers Francisco Borrero and Ángel Guerra, Colonel Marcos del Rosario, and Captain César Salas.

Antonio Maceo, Flor Crombet, José Maceo, and other patriots did so in Duaba, also in the eastern part of the country, on April 1 of that year.

A few days after his arrival on the island, the National Hero was promoted to Major General of the Liberation Army, a fact that dispelled certain doubts about the validity of his leadership in the theater of operations.

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