Full of memories and solemnity, the streets of the Colon Necropolis witnessed that after 48 years of the terrorist attack that in 1976 took the lives of 73 innocent people, after a Cubana de Aviación aircraft exploded in mid-flight over the waters of Barbados, Cuba does not forget.
The ceremony in honor of the victims of that crime began with an emotional pilgrimage from the church of the cemetery to the pantheon of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), where floral offerings were laid on behalf of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution; Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic; the Council of State and the Cuban people.
"Every October 6 reminds us that it was CIA-sponsored terrorists who shot down the Cubana airliner with 73 people on board in 1976, and that those terrorists were sheltered by the cynical empire that today includes Cuba on a list of sponsors of terrorism," Díaz-Canel posted on his X account.
Those who marched with a firm and determined step reflected the revolutionary, patriotic and anti-imperialist spirit referred to in her words of tribute by canoeist Yarisleidis Cirilo Dubois, Olympic bronze medalist in Paris 2024.
With a firm voice, the youngest member of the Council of State affirmed that "the people will continue to consolidate itself as an indestructible weapon against the true promoter of this policy of hate and death, the United States."
She stressed that despite the fact that its campaign of lies, as part of aggressions and destabilizing attempts, places Cuba on spurious lists, the world recognizes the work of the largest of the Antilles in the fight against terrorism, and knows of the permanent condemnation of a scourge it has suffered in all its forms and manifestations.
The athlete denounced once again that the terrorist acts committed by the U.S. government against the island have caused 3,478 deaths and 2,099 people with disabilities, and recalled how that crime, organized by employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, took the lives of the 24 members of the youth fencing team, athletes who were titled in the 4th Central American and Caribbean Championship, held in Venezuela.
Cirilo Dubois returned to the words of our Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, when he said that the gold medals of those brave men, "will not lie at the bottom of the ocean, they are already rising like suns without spots and as symbols in the firmament of Cuba."
Those present, led by CCPCC secretariat member Yudí Rodríguez Hernández, head of the Department of Attention to Services; together with other authorities of the Party, the Government, Inder, the Ministry of Transportation and the Cuban Aviation Corporation, accompanied the families and friends of the victims to place flowers in the niches that hold their mortal remains.
