Cuba honors Father of the Nation on the 150th anniversary of his death

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 27 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban President, recalled today Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Father of the Homeland, on the 27th anniversary of his death.

"Cubans: I count on your heroism to achieve independence. I count on your virtue to consolidate the Republic. Count on my abnegation," quoted the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, on X, to the independence hero when he assumed the Presidency of the Republic in Arms on April 11, 1869.
In his message on the social network, the president assured that Cuba honors that legacy.

Also on X, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla pointed out the validity of the Cuban patriot's thought when he said: "As far as the U.S. is concerned, maybe I'm wrong; but in my opinion, what their government aspires to do is to take over Cuba.

150 years ago, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Father of the Homeland and first President of the Republic in Arms, fell in combat and warned us: "As far as the United States is concerned, I may be wrong; but in my opinion, what your government aspires to do is to take over #Cuba".

Carlos Manuel de Cespedes was a lawyer and wealthy landowner from Bayamo who on October 10, 1868 stripped himself of all his comforts, freed his slaves, declared the abolition of slavery and started the wars for the independence of Cuba against the colonial regime of Spain.

Considered as the Father of the Homeland, he was also Major General of the Liberating Army of Cuba and first President of the Republic of Cuba in Arms.
He died in unequal combat against Spanish troops on February 27, 1874 in San Lorenzo, in the Sierra Maestra.