Legacy of an emancipatory woman that survives in time

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Ana Betancourt.In the contemporary Guaimaro the emancipatory spirit of the independence fighters shines as on April 10, 1869 they decided to endow the new nation with a constitution. The 365 days of the year embracing the remembrance, children, youth, adults, the entire town, revere Mrs. Ana, the same Cuban to whom Carlos Manuel de Céspedes 'The Father of the Fatherland', told her that she had won already a place in the history of the island.

 

The famous Camagüeyan patriot dies in Madrid, Spain. (P) Her indelible legend is remembered by all Cubans. It is worth highlighting the passage that tells how Ana just on November 4th, 1868, when her husband Ignacio Mora went to war, she begged: "Join me to your destiny, because like you, I wish to consecrate my life to the country."

At present, right in the Museum-Mausoleum complex, erected in the same space as in '1869' she reiterated before the legislators and the people her arguments for the emancipation of women, rests Ana Betancourt de Mora, the Cuban who ahead of her time demonstrated in her address the value of women, tireless battles who know how to be born grown up and fly like doves.

To retrace the stairs that lead to her niche allows time to go back and you listen to her voice of severe timbre proclaiming the rights of women:

-Citizens: The woman in the dark and quiet corner of the home waited patiently and resigned for this beautiful hour when a new revolution breaks yokes and opens the wings.

-Citizens: Everything was a slave here, the cradle, the color, the sex, you want to destroy the slavery of the cradle by fighting until you die, you have destroyed the slavery of color by emancipating the servant; It was time to free the woman.

What a privilege for Guaimaro citizens to have a monument that exalts her name. What an honor to know that in the easternmost region of Camaguey, today's women pay perpetual tribute in the same place where her remains rest.

 

Foto: Radio Cadena Agramonte
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