The Universal Hall of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), as well as all the armies of the country and the Border Brigade, Order Antonio Maceo, were the places chosen yesterday for chiefs, officers, cadets, soldier stufents and civilian workers of the FAR and the Ministry of the Interior to pay posthumous tribute to Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa Martín.
In the Universal Hall, the tribute was accompanied by floral offerings from 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 Bermúdez, as well as the member of the Political Bureau and president of the National Assembly of People's Power, Esteban Lazo Hernández, the Ministry of the FAR, the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution and family members.
"General Espinosa will always be remembered as an integral man, loved by his comrades and the people, for his work to strengthen the fighting capacity of the FAR and his support in situations of natural disasters. His loss is deeply felt among Cubans, although his example will live on," said reserve Brigadier General Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
Colonel Rafael Moreno Ruíz, head of the First Deputy Minister's working group - a position Espinosa Martin held until his death - who worked with the General for nearly 20 years, remembers him as a person of integrity and very revolutionary. "He was always linked to the work with the people, he used to say that this concept of the Commander could not be lost, because he had to be always among the people, to know how to act at every moment. Every task entrusted to him, he took it with the seriousness it deserved, and carried it through to the end," he said.
The ceremony was guarded by the Lone Star flag, topped with a black ribbon as a sign of mourning for the death of the noble man, loved by the people. To the Hero of the Republic of Cuba and of Labor, to the courageous man of Cabinda, to the chief of the Eastern Army for more than 26 years, eternal gratitude.
