The People United Like a Fist
The 126 members of the 23rd Latin-American and Caribbean Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba that celebrate Fidel’s 90th birthday in Cuba, show a jovial, effusive and friendly nature
The 126 members of the 23rd Latin-American and Caribbean Brigade of Solidarity with Cuba go to work each morning in the fields of the near province of Artemisa, headquarters of the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp, in the municipality of Caimito.
And there, they had the first exchanges with the political and administrative authorities in the town few days ago, who was grateful to them for being present in the festivities on the occasion of the 90th birthday of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, next August 13.
They dedicated songs and slogans, verses and poems to Fidel
The meeting with the Vice President of the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP) Fernando González Llort, host of the brigade, was effusive and cheerful.
González Llort, also Hero of the Republic of Cuba, said that the ICAP is working at present with 123 countries in order to make easer a better understanding of Cuba, by means of direct meetings with the Cuban people to know the Cuban reality, which is often twisted by the media.
He explained that the members of the Latin-American and Caribbean group will also visit historical and cultural places in Havana, the Che Guevara memorial in Santa Clara, in the center region of Cuba, and Playa Girón in Matanzas, where the imperialism suffered its first defeat in America.
Fernando, one of the Five antiterrorists who kept long and unjust imprisonment in the United States penitentiaries, explained that the brigade has come to Cuba in the time when the Cuban people are debating the documents analyzed last April at the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party. These documents are the pragmatic guidelines for the economic and social development aimed at consolidating Socialism as the model for ensuring the conquests reached in the past 50 years.
He also said that changes are aimed at achieving a more just and efficient society, which requires the democratic and popular debate by the protagonists.
Once again, the flags of Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela and many other sister nations were united like a fist, as a symbol of that freedom inspired by the rebellious and redeeming
Cuba that is celebrating, in these warm days of August, the birthday of the guide of this Revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble.