488 kilometer of the Central Highway witnessed, again on January 5, the passage of the bearded men of the Sierra Maestra, although now in a symbolic way incarnated by a group of young people who feel they are followers of their example.
At that point in the geography of Ciego de Ávila, which marks the entrance to the town of Gaspar, the meeting and passing of the flag of the caravans from the neighboring province of Camagüey to Ciego de Ávila, to reissue the same route of a historical event that 63 January made an entire town vibrate with emotion.
For the guests of honor of this appointment with history, the Lieutenant Colonels of the reserve Efrén León Napoles and Edelio González Vargas, both combatants of the invading column of Commander Ernesto “Che” Guevara, remembering those first days of the revolutionary triumph gives them back their great effervescence of the great majorities that envisioned a better future for themselves.
As it is traditional, the corner of Maceo and Chicho Valdés streets, in the provincial capital, served as a political-cultural space to commemorate the event, and reaffirm the will of students, young workers and the people in general, together with the main authorities of the territory, to continue the path of social justice set by the men and women of the Centennial Generation.
The moment was propitious for the delivery of the card of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) and of the Cuban Communist Party to new members of the two organizations, with the honor of receiving it, many of them, from the hands of Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Hero of the Republic of Cuba.
Lianet Pazo Cedeño, first secretary of the UJC in the province, in the central words of the act said that the spirit of the guerrillas who left Santiago de Cuba in 1959 for the capital of the country is more alive than ever in the new generations that they wage daily combat in various sectors of society and the economy.
In addition, she highlighted the role of those who participated in the confrontation with COVID-19 in tasks such as the investigation, tasks within the Red Zone, medicine and food delivery; among other fundamental issues such as agro-food production.After the act, the caravan continued its march towards the border with the province of Sancti Spíritus, where others will take over, which will conclude on January 8 with the entrance to Havana.Within the framework of the activity, Tony Guerrero, one of the Five Cuban antiterrorist heroes, held a discussion with the young people of Ciego de Ávila in the municipality of Majagua.