The clock sets 4:25 pm at the Military Hospital Dr. Carlos Arvelo, in the Venezuelan capital. It is March 5, 2013, a day that would be forever imbued with nostalgia on the pages of history, because when the country loses one of its most illustrious sons the pain is deep and excruciating.
It seems like yesterday when before the television cameras convinced that the fight this time would not be only for the country he loved, also for life, he spoke to his people and spoke to the point of making you feel goose bumps and replenish the soul rejoicing with that drawing power that always characterized him, the same that transformed the unforgettable expression 'for now' in a vote of faith, dream possible, humanity and hope.
A long road is presented to the eyes, the trajectory points towards north of the town, history and contemporaneity merge ready to conquer the curiosity with the aim of dusting details of a legend whose main protagonist is one of the first communities created by the Cuban revolution: Palo Seco today Pueblo Nuevo Popular Council.
Immersed in the early days of the nation she didn´t take a look to her trousseau that would serve to her days in Guaimaro with her husband Ignacio Mora.
142 years ago all worthy Cubans, lovers of independence, lost a father. Yes, the man who in the midst of the Great War against the Spanish colonialism, when the commander in chief of the Island of Cuba, Caballero de Rodas, sent a informing him that his youngest son, Oscar, had been captured and sentenced to death message, so he proposed to offer the life of the young in exchange for a personal arrangement whose bases would be subsequently argued, he adamantly responded: "Oscar is not my only son, I am the father of all the Cubans who have died for the Revolution." Attitude that earned him since then the proclamation of Father of the Nation.
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