Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel recalled this Friday the historical coincidence of the birth on this day, although in different centuries, of two paradigmatic figures of the struggles for national independence: Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Guevara.
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For his part, the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament), Esteban Lazo, highlighted the example of revolutionary intransigence of Maceo and “Che” – as Guevara was called here -, and assured that his legacy It is inspiration in the face of present and future challenges.
The Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales, exemplified the intransigence of both revolutionaries with phrases that became famous on the island: “no, we understand each other,” Maceo snapped at the peace proposal without independence from the army. Spanish.
Meanwhile, the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla warned the world that “to imperialism (the United States government) not even a little bit, nothing.” The people of Cuba do not bow down, the senior PCC leader remarked on his own social network.
The 179th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Maceo (1845) and the 96th of Ernesto Guevara (1928) is the culmination of days of tributes that began on June 1 to highlight the dedication of both patriots to achieve the independence of the island.
Cubans today also highlight similarities between both revolutionaries that are not limited to the day of their births, since their thoughts and actions in different centuries place them as examples of personal courage, honesty, sense of solidarity and commitment to the libertarian causes of Cuba and Latin America.
Of them, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, expressed: “If one (Maceo) stated that whoever tried to take over Cuba would collect the dust of its soil flooded with blood if he did not perish in the fight, the other (Che) flooded with his blood the soil of Bolivia trying to prevent the empire from taking over America.”
“Both were invaders from East to West; both died in combat; Both are today unsurpassed symbols of courage and revolutionary intransigence,” Fidel Castro stressed.
