The tribute to Vladimir Ilich Lenin for the 155th anniversary of his birth, held on the hill dedicated to the revolutionary in the Havana municipality of Regla, was attended by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
In the evocation to the proletarian leader, the member of the Political Bureau and general secretary of the Workers' Central Union of Cuba (CTC, in Spanish), Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, called to multiply the presence in the May Day parade, to demonstrate the commitment with the project of the country in its current time.
101 years ago, the people of Regla, headed by its mayor Antonio Bosch Martínez, paid the first honors to Lenin outside the Soviet Union, while his funeral was being held in Moscow. Also, by means of a decree, it named him Great Citizen of the World, recalled the secretary general of the CTC in Havana, Alfredo Vázquez Pérez.
At that time, continued the story, the mayor went to the place of this act, then called Loma del Fortin. He planted an olive tree and the rest of the population observed two minutes of silence; at the same time, factories, transportation and commerce lined up in an unprecedented mobilization.
As a historical reason for hosting the International Workers' Day, Vázquez Pérez evoked its first celebration in Cuba, in 1890, just one year after the Second International agreed on the date.
Lidier Águila Machado, president of the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers, announced the delivery to 11 colleagues of a replica of Fidel Castro Ruz's innovator's card, as an example of tenacity, simplicity, optimism and resistance.
One of the honorees, Miguel Hernán Estévez del Toro, director of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital, praised the search for alternatives in the absence of resources as a way of guaranteeing the continuity of medical assistance.
Likewise, six entities of the municipality received a plaque for their labor results, as part of the emulative movements among the unions in the province.
Also attending the commemoration were members of the Central Committee Marydé Fernández López, vice chief of the Ideological Department; Liván Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Yanet Hernández Pérez, governor of Havana; as well as other leaders of the Party, the Government, the CTC and its unions, the Union of Young Communists and mass organizations.
