He hurriedly puts on his shoes, grabs his backpack and waits for his mother to open the door. It is not just any day, and that is why he is certain that something will change starting that morning.
Dad ties the knot moved, as if he would also wear, from now on, the blue scarf that has so much symbolism for Cuba. It seems like yesterday when he saw him enter the classroom with a smile on his face; the one that now, after receiving the attribute, widens.
Hope is also in that blue, in the pact of love between the family and the school; in that simple act in which, more than initiating in the José Martí Pioneers Organization, one embraces the Homeland and the future.
"Today the networks are full of beautiful images of our pioneers receiving their blue bandanna. May that joy never be lost, that smile of the "child who is growing up," that communion between parents, schools, pioneers. May being like Che continue to be the paradigm," wrote the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in his X account.
It is no coincidence that on October 8, the date on which the Camilo-Che Day begins, almost 100,000 new pupils receive their attribute and exclaim the slogan that unites them and turns them into those "pioneers for communism," who will be inspired by the one with the star on his forehead.
This event also reminds us that in Cuba there will always be aspirations to strive for, ideas and clean horizons to persevere for.
To the red and white uniform is added the blue triangle. Sublime as the flag are the girls and boys of the Island. Cuba already has its new pioneers. Cuba has future men and women of integrity who will be like Che.
