Duaba, Guantánamo. -Honor returned expeditionary; Antonio and José Maceo, together with Flor Crombet and 20 patriots, in an exponential beaching on Duaba; they and the audacious episode are remembered. Now they are more, they are copious youth. They are thousands.
They were seen as they were this April 1st, fused with Cuba, in Duaba. This is where the Island went on pilgrimage, in Baracoa mode. This is where it marched when the sun began to warm the walls of the city.
It was a four-kilometer pilgrimage, from April 1st Street to the obelisk in memory of the beaching. Girls and boys, students, young people, also men and women from middle and old age, and from different sectors marched. By the vigor of the steps, they were “in a tight square, like silver in the roots of the Andes”.
In front, the Cuban flag; in loud voice, loyalty and continuity. The march is the most long-lived of its kind in the country; it is repeated every April 1st, since 1903.
Yesterday, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, was in front, early as the sun, accompanied by the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, Roberto Morales Ojeda, and by the provincial authorities.
Speaking for all, for Cuba and the future, Meyvis Estévez Echevarría, leader of the current Cuban youth, highlighted the transcendence of that beaching, of the path opened that day, of the example of those who gave everything for the independence of the nation.
In Baracoa, the streets were taken by its people, in view of the symbol of Hatuey, at the highest point of the city.
Just as there is a Light of Yara, legend of the martyrdom of the rebel chieftain, there is another full of heroism and intense glow, which since 1895 shines brightly every April 1st: the Light of Duaba.
