Diaz Canel presides over patriotic commemoration at Duaba

 

GUANTANAMO, Cuba, Apr 1 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, leads the pilgrimage that takes place in Baracoa in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the landing on Duaba Beach of Major Generals of the Liberation Army, Antonio and Jose Maceo and Flor Crombet and other patriots, aboard the schooner Honor, for the resumption of the Necessary War.

The walk, the oldest one carried out in Cuba, started from April 1st Street, with the attendance of Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, the main authorities of the easternmost province of Guantanamo and the people of Baracoa.

During the tour, homage will also be paid to Colonel Felix Ruenes in the neighborhood of La Playa, where the Mambi rebelled on the afternoon of April 1st in support of the expeditionaries, who with only 11 rifles and 23 revolvers confronted the Spanish troops, superior in manpower and armaments.

The pilgrimage will conclude at the Duaba Obelisk, a National Monument, erected near the spot where the schooner Honor ran aground, and at the foot of the Alto del Pino sculptural complex, the site of the first and victorious battle of the independence fighters against enemy troops.
At this sacred place of the nation, the political and cultural event will take place, along with the reenactment of the historic event by a group of young people, in a congregation attended by representatives of the people of Baracoa.

The landing at Duaba was the trigger Cubans had hoped for to intensify the recently begun Necessary War for independence from Spanish colonialism. The leadership of the event would be completed with the arrival at Playita de Cajobabo, 10 days later, of José Martí, Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, and several officers of the Liberation Army, further igniting the revolutionary flame ignited on February 24, 1895.