March 14: Cuban Press Day

Today, 126 years after its founding, Cuban journalists see in Patria a source of ethics and love. Every day the men and women of the Cuban press put all their energies into their revolutionary and consistent work with the same spirit that reigned in that pioneering newspaper, founded by José Martí, March 14, 1892, to unite “good and useful men of all backgrounds, who persist in the sacrifice of emancipation, or sincerely embark on it; to explain and determine the real and active forces of the country, and their sources of composition and decomposition, so that the knowledge of our shortcomings and errors, and of our risks, ensure the work for which the romantic and disorganized faith of our patriotism will not suffice; and to encourage and proclaim virtue wherever it is found. To gather together and love, and to live in the passion of truth, this newspaper is born.”