On February 27th, 2017, the Guaimareños recalled the 143th anniversary of the death of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Father of the homeland, an independentist who accepted with serenity his dismissal of the presidency of the Republic, which was inspired by a young Camagüeyan girl and composed the romantic song La Conchita.
For these last days of the month of love, children, young people and adults of the territory highlight the human greatness of the patriot who freed his slaves in La Demajagua, on Saturday, October 10th, 1868.
This Monday the story highlights the Céspedes who knew how to admire in the San Lorenzo estate in the heart of the Sierra Maestra the support that was fostered by invalids and women of the Revolution, the battler who did not spare to dedicate part of his valuable time to teach how to read and to write to the children who lived near his hut.
The Carlos Manuel who today shines through his imprint and courage, comes stripped from his home with library, his stables, his men working in his sugar cane, it can be can seen right in the hut where he had only a hammock, a desk-table and other few things.
In the birthplace of the Constitution the strings of the guitar reveal the beauty of a melody that enamors, stimulates and magnifies: Come Conchita, your love is my life / For you I break from the world the ties / And to feel and enjoy in my arms / Come Conchita of my soul, yes, come.
The twenty-seventh day of the second month of the year summons to read books and publications, in many of them there are two indelible quotations, the first one dedicated by Céspedes to his wife: "Wherever I go-except the official-I am welcomed as before: Now it must be more sincerity. "
Discovered by the Spanish troops at the San Lorenzo estate on February 27th, 1874, the event was circumscribed by posterity in this expression of Manuel Sanguily: "Céspedes could not consent that he, as a sovereign incarnation of the sublime rebellion, would be taken as a triumph by the Spaniards, arrested and tied up as a delinquent. He accepted for a few moments the great battle of his people: he confronted the enemies who were on him with his revolver, and wounded by death by a bullet, fell into a ravine like a sun of flames plunging into the abyss ".
The corpse of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Father of the Homeland, was taken to Santiago de Cuba, where he was buried.