José Antonio Echeverría was honored in his native Cárdenas and in Havana, next to the University, on November 27th Street, where he fell in unequal combat against tyranny.
On March 13, 67 years ago, he and his comrades of the Revolutionary Directorate, in heroic action, took over the Presidential Palace and the Radio Reloj radio station, in the name of freedom for Cubans.
Both in the municipality of Matanzas and in the central corner of the capital, floral offerings were laid on behalf of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz; the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermudez; the Councils of State and Ministers, and the Federation of University Students (FEU).
Although the military action did not achieve its objectives, it did succeed in shaking the popular conscience and undermined the confidence of the tyranny, affirmed Ricardo Rodríguez González, president of the Federation of University Students (FEU in Spanish).
Tribuna de La Habana newspaper reported that Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat and head of its Department of Attention to the Social Sector; Luis A. Torres Iribar, first secretary of the Party in Havana, and Aylin Alvarez Garcia, first secretary of the ujc, as well as Doctor of Science Miriam Nicado, rector of the University of Havana, attended the tribute.
In Ciudad Bandera, in Matanzas, as every year, young people, together with a wide popular representation, led the traditional pilgrimage from the Birthplace Museum of the eternal president of the FEU to the site where his remains rest in the local necropolis.
