HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 7 (acn) Army General Raul Castro, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the councils of State and Ministers of Cuba, presided over the political meeting and military ceremony on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of the death in combat of General Antonio Maceo.
Caribbean heads of state, on the island for the 5th CARICOM-Cuba Summit to be held on Monday in Havana, also attended the commemoration, which took place at the Mausoleum of El Cacahual, in this capital, where the mortal remains of Maceo, known as El Titan de Bronce, and his assistant, Captain Panchito Gomez Toro, lie.
The tribute was extended to internationalists, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the transfer to the homeland of the mortal remains of its internationalist children, in what was known as Operation Tribute.
Also present in these commemorative activities were other leaders of the Cuban Communist Party, the government and the State, heads and officers of armed institutions, and relatives of internationalist combatants who died in African nations, like Angola.
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