Camagüey, Dec 2.- Last night, the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz returned once again, undefeated, rebellious, and eternal, to the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz in this city, nine years after his ashes rested in the Jimaguayú Hall of that emblematic site.
This was commemorated by the people of Camagüey, led by the highest authorities of the Provincial Defense Council, during a gala honoring the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, where music, poetry, dance, and décima became the perfect excuse for prestigious Camagüeyan artists to pay tribute.
Performances by the Camagüey Professional Choir, the Duo Voces, troubadour Andy Daniel, the Mi Jazz group, among others, celebrated Fidel and his glorious legacy.
Under the artistic direction of Jesús Vidal Rueda Infante, the improvisational poets Héctor Peláez and Nelson Lima highlighted the brotherhood between Fidel and Frei Betto, Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez, and Hugo Chávez Frías. They especially expressed in their décimas that "there is no power that can destroy the union of the two peoples," referring to the friendship between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Cuba.
With choreography from the Vocational School of Arts, soloists Aida Esther and Joan Márquez, along with the Mi Jazz group, performed "Cabalgando con Fidel," authored by Raúl Torres, a musical theme that continues to inspire a multitude of grateful people.
While the lyrics moved many Camagüeyans, reflections from the Commander in Chief such as "If I go out, I arrive; if I arrive, I enter; if I enter, I triumph," "A Revolution can only be the daughter of culture and ideas," "When an energetic and virile people cry, injustice trembles," or "Homeland or death, We will overcome," reaffirmed that Fidel lives, inspires, and guides a people committed to "defending values they believe in at any cost."
