Havana, Jan 27 (EFE).- Several thousand young people, led by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his predecessor Raul Castro, participated Saturday in the traditional torch march to commemorate the 171st anniversary of the birth of the country’s hero Jose Marti. The traditional night procession started after 8:00pm local time (01:00 GMT, Sunday) at the steps …
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January 28, 2021
“The pandemic will be defeated and the difficulties we face overcome. This is the history of Cuba. This is the history of patriots like Martí, this is the history of our revolutionary students,” Army General Raúl Castro Ruz stated yesterday evening, during a heartfelt exchange at the Fragua Martiana with some twenty young people who had descended the University of Havana’s Grand Stairway in the traditional March of the Torches.
“This demonstration is not the largest, but it is one of the most moving,” stated the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, who, along with the President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, at the historic Havana intersection of Hospital and Príncipe Streets, received the group who reenacted that first march held January 27, 1953, led by a young Fidel Castro Ruz. This year, given the precautions demanded by the pandemic, the tribute was smaller and the route customarily illuminated by thous