This ‘February 6, 2020’ Cuba makes a toast to Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán, because in his short years of life he wrote a very rich history in acts of heroism, intelligence and combative audacity. Cuba all rises the cups of dignity and demonstrates on the 88th anniversary of his birth that the Hero of Yaguajay shines everlasting in time.
Comandante Camilo, today is a day to smile as you did, today is a day to assume it with the same enthusiasm and vigor that you always showed, today is a very special day to remember you.
In this day of homage we see you more village man, more guerrilla leader. See you with your winged hat, your prodigal beard and long hair, serene, dressed in olive green and with a rifle on the shoulder to say again Here I am, count on me!
Every second month of the year you return unharmed, to give us your frank smile, your joy, to inject that summoning power that always sprouted in you, to ratify us that the true man willingly assumes the moments without fearing danger, ready to give for the just cause even your own life.
We congratulate the young rebel today on his 88th birthday, to the endearing leader, to the jocular fighter, to the bearded man of the Sierra Maestra, one of the last men accepted in the Granma yacht expedition, 'to the greatest guerrilla brought up by this Revolution, the never failing revolutionary, the fraternal friend 'as Che cataloged him.
His physical departure a few months after the revolutionary victory shocked everyone, but as journalist Luis Hernández Serrano wrote in a wonderful work inspired by Camilo, a legend: 'As there is no grave in the waves, nor crosses in the memory, we will talk about he in all the years that the future has. '
Camilo is evoked today to continue as a guide and always accompany us, to continue to excite us all with his powerful voice, the one that still echoes when he utters that memorable expression born of the soul of the most charismatic of the guerrillas: 'Because to stop this Cuban revolution, an entire people must die and if that happens, the verses of Bonifacio Byrne would be a reality:
If into tiny pieces my flag is one day torn ... our dead will raise their arms and will defend it once again!
The fighter who endorsed the word first, yes, the first of the rebel officers of the Sierra Maestra to go down to fight the plain, the first guerrilla leader who arrived in Las Villas, on October 7, 1958, the first in take the Matanzas Regiment, on 'January 2, 1959', the one who accompanied Fidel at the triumphal entry to Havana, the same one who delivered the Ciudad Libertad camp to the Ministry of Education (MINED) to turn it into a school, this The first Thursday of February takes over the remembrances to once again ratify the strength of his mark, the immortality of his legacy.