Cuba signs in support of peace and its Revolution. From one end of the country to the other, tens of thousands of compatriots demonstrated the sentiment of an entire people who, despite imperialist harassment, will not renounce their right to build their own history.
Squares and parks throughout the country experienced a unique day this Sunday, in which men and women of all ages, sectors, and faiths expressed with their signatures that, despite the increasingly frequent threats from the U.S. administration, this nation will not yield nor be intimidated.
Sixty-five years after the resounding victory against the mercenary aggression at Playa Girón, combatant Reynaldo Fernández Moreno affirmed that “if then we were a handful of men, today we are millions, ready to take up arms, defend our sovereignty and the Revolution for which hundreds of Cubans offered their lives to achieve this freedom.”
And with the same resolve as those days in April 1961, when Cuban troops dealt the first defeat to imperialism in the Americas, he added that “the words surrender and defeat are abolished from our vocabulary.”
With that same conviction, and the certainty that Girón is today and always! the people of this insurgent island joined en masse the “My Signature for the Homeland” movement, in order to demonstrate their commitment to peace, but also their resolve and readiness to defend sovereignty.
“Girón is irrefutable proof that when a people fight united, with awareness and with rifles, no empire can subdue them,” said Liliana Pupo Rodríguez, a young woman from Granma province.
Meanwhile, Jorge Moreno Castellón, from Villa Clara province, warned that Cubans “want peace to prevail, but make no mistake. Here is a people ready to inflict another defeat on the enemy to the north.”
This does not mean that imperial pressures will not have a terrible effect, nor that the intensification of the blockade to insane levels will not be felt in all spheres of life, but to give in to the whims of those who attack us would be to betray our history. That is why the words of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz are more relevant than ever: “A cowardly people surrenders and returns to slavery, but a dignified and courageous people like ours do not surrender and will never again become slaves.”
IMAGE CREDIT: Cuba Signs in Support of Peace and its Revolution. Photo: Freddy Pérez Cabrera
[ SOURCE: GRANMA ]
