Díaz-Canel presides over national commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the landing at Playita de Cajobabo

Translated from the Spanish

Imías, Guantánamo - Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, today (March 11) led the national commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the landing of José Martí, Generalísimo Máximo Gómez and other patriots at Playita de Cajobabo.

Also in attendance were Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Party's Central Committee; Yoel Pérez García, First Secretary of the PCC in the province; Alis Azahares Torreblanca, Governor of Guantánamo; and the main authorities of the municipality of Imías, where this sacred place of the nation is located.

At the commemoration, prominent local youth reenacted the expeditionaries' arrival on the eastern coast, near which an obelisk stands at the foot of rocky outcrops honouring the feat.

Díaz-Canel later met with 130 distinguished young people from across the country who arrived yesterday in Guantánamo. They toured the mausoleum of the Mambisado in La Confianza, the Eastern Battalion of the Border Brigade, Antonio Maceo Order, and held a vigil in Cajobabo, awaiting the glorious time.

On April 11, 1895, at around 10:30 p.m., José Martí landed on the Cuban coast during a downpour and under a red moon, along with Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, Brigadiers Francisco Borrero and Ángel Guerra, Colonel Marcos del Rosario, and Captain César Salas.

The patriots arrived to join the war that began on February 24, 1895, with little thought other than fighting for national independence.

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