2023-12-07 17:24:36
127 years ago San Pedro in Bauta became an altar to the history of Cuba. Right in this place, on December 7, 1896, Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo Grajales and his assistant Francisco Gómez Toro (Panchito), son of Generalísimo Máximo Gómez Báez, fell in combat against Spanish troops.
From the early hours of the morning, 529 students from military educational institutions, cadets, representatives of the MININT and the FAR, and a group of young people from Artemiseño and Mayabequense participated in a symbolic march to the Mausoleum of El Cacahual in the Cuban capital where the remains of both rest. revolutionaries for eternity.
His firm and giant steps could be heard in the tranquility of dawn and were at the same time a living symbol of commitment to the past in the middle of the 22 kilometer journey. Steps very similar to those who did not hesitate to grant honor and glory to the Bronze Titan and his companion, between slogans and loyalty.
The pilgrimage arrived at the Lombillo well, the site where the bodies were washed, and then stopped in the La Ceiba community in San Antonio de los Baños, a border point with the province of Mayabeque. There, students from the Julio Trigo primary school paid tribute to the revolutionaries along with their teachers, and said goodbye to the crowd of young people who seemed unstoppable in the remembrance.
Luis Manuel García Varona, historian of the San Pedro Monumental Complex, recognized the importance of returning and remembering a mournful date for Cubans, which contains heroism and pride in the name of the Homeland. “Maceo’s leadership and firmness were enough to achieve unity and admiration among his companions, and Panchito’s loyalty until death was enough,” he stressed.
As a tradition assumed thirteen years ago by the people of Artemis, San Pedro brings together the present of the Revolution, and remembers a father, Máximo Gómez, who in a letter to María Cabrales, Maceo’s widow, expressed: “(…) This sorrow unites, there in the depths of my soul, the cruelest pain of my Pancho, who fell next to the corpse of the heroic warrior and was buried with him in the same grave, as if providence had wanted with this fact to grant my misfortune the sad consolation of to see united in the tomb two beings whose names lived eternally united in the depths of my heart.”
Photos: Otoniel Márquez Beltrán
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