Raul Castro and Diaz Canel head March of the Torches in Havana

 HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 28 (ACN) Summoned by the example and thought of National Hero Jose Marti, the Cuban youth and people of the country raised their torches into the Havana night, in that historic march first led by the Centenary Generation 72 years ago today.

Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, led the tribute to the most universal of Cubans, on the occasion of the 172nd anniversary of his birth.

The commemoration was also attended by leaders of the Political Bureau, the Party, the Government, the University Student Federation (FEU), the Young Communist League (UJC by its Spanish acronym), the Revolutionary Armed Forces and other student, social and mass organizations.

Ricardo Rodriguez Gonzalez, national president of the FEU, referred to the imprint of his ideas among the new generations and the historical need of the Apostle's thought in the current moments that the nation is going through.

He insisted on the anti-imperialist aspect of Marti as a warning of future U.S. aggressions and that the response of the Cuban people to that enemy can only be unity.

In this way, the student leader urged those present to feel for the Homeland and the Revolution in the full dimension of Marti's ethics, based on his most elementary values and principles.

Through social networks, Denisse Hernandez Delgado, president of the Movimiento Juvenil Martiano (Marti Youth Movement) in Santa Clara, which was recognized as outstanding in the central province, shared exclusively with the Cuban News Agency about her motivations for marching.

She pointed out in her thoughts the Latin American integration, which shows its validity nowadays when all the countries of the region are under the danger of the imperialist pretensions of the United States, driven by the neo-fascist tendencies of Donald Trump's administration.

It is up to the youth of these times to find their place in the current trenches to face that threat, which requires all the ideological preparation possible to assume the challenges of that mission in the best way possible, she added.