Havana, Cuba, Friday October 3rd ,2025; that is, today. It seems that numerically, there will be as many people in the hall as there are available spaces.
The matter is not statistically simple. There will be leaders, intellectuals, personalities from politics, culture, and journalism, gathered to commemorate the 60 years since the historic decision when the nation had, and presented to the people, the Central Committee of what was then called the Communist Party of Cuba. On the same date, Fidel revealed that legendary farewell letter from Che, and the flagship newspaper of the Revolution was born: Granma.
In the hall, to honor this occasion, there will be militiamen with sand from Playa Girón in their boots, sweaty men with machetes in hand, young girls and boys with lanterns and literacy cards, helicopters saving lives in flooded areas, teachers in front of classrooms, doctors holding patients' hands, workers, farmers...
In tributes like this, it always seems there is no physical space for so many people (or so much glory), but there is more than enough heart for figures like Alicia Alonso, Sara, Stevenson, Juantorena, Sotomayor, Rita Longa, a mountain of internationalists, white coats departing from or returning to the darkest and most vulnerable corners of the globe, leaders and personalities who, at the risk of displeasing the empire, have come to rejuvenate and to breathe life into Cuba for more than six decades...
Because all that history and thousands more stories are here, in the archives, on the pages, and in the ethereal (digital) expression of an organ that was born with the sense of unity and attachment to the truth of that newspaper (Patria) founded by Martí in 1892; in the footprint that continues to outline the only party justly possible for all Cubans and in every line of that authentically Guevarist letter.
Source: Granma
