Cuban authorities highlighted on social media the ceremonies held throughout the country on Friday as a posthumous tribute from the people to the 32 compatriots who died during the U.S. aggression against Venezuela.
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, who led the march in Havana on Friday morning, noted that the events held in every locality across the country confirmed that the homeland looks upon the fallen combatants with pride.
Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, emphasized that the people also reaffirmed their commitment to the Homeland and the Revolution.
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla asserted that in the rallies, the Cuban people “said loud and clear no to aggression and threats, no to imperialist attempts to divide us and destroy the Cuban Revolution and Socialism.”
With the participation of some 500,000 Cubans, the march of the fighting people in Havana was a prelude to similar ceremonies in all provinces, as part of the day of tribute to the heroes, which began this Thursday with the arrival of their remains in their homeland.
“When it seems that the world is burying even its last utopia, that money and technology are above all human dreams, that humanity is growing weary, at that very moment 32 brave Cubans offered their lives and rose to the occasion in a fierce battle until the last bullet, until their last breath,” Díaz-Canel declared from the anti-imperialist platform, as he opened the massive march.
This Thursday, more than 251,000 people paid tribute to the heroes at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), before their mortal remains.
Earlier, along the route from José Martí International Airport, a sea of people also gathered on Rancho Boyeros Avenue to honor them.
The remains of the fallen are being interred in the Pantheon of the Fallen in Defense of their respective towns.
The 32 Cuban combatants were carrying out missions representing the FAR and the Ministry of the Interior, at the request of their counterparts in the South American country, and fell in the early morning of January 3, in direct confrontations with the attackers or during bombings of installations.
The President of the Republic of Cuba declared two days of National Mourning, from 6:00 a.m. on January 5th until midnight on January 6th.
IMAGE CREDIT: ACN | Photo: Omara García Mederos
[ SOURCE: AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
