Santiago de Cuba. -The people of Santiago, in pilgrimages to the intersection of Callejón del Muro and San Germán, and the Santa Ifigenia patrimonial cemetery, paid homage to their beloved son Frank País García and his companion in struggle, Raúl Pujol Arencibia, who were assassinated by henchmen of the Batista tyranny on July 30, 1957, date consecrated as the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution.
At the Martyrs' Altarpiece in Santa Ifigenia, floral offerings were placed by 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; Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, and the Cuban people.
Díaz-Canel expressed in X that in both patriots "we have references of virtue, and also the pride of knowing that we come from Cubans like them".
To the rhythm of patriotic marches, played by the Municipal Concert Band, the highest political and governmental authorities of Santiago and the people arrived at the Martyrs' Square, where a wreath was placed on behalf of the people of Cuba, at the base of the monument that commemorates the event of which Fidel said: "What monsters! They do not know the intelligence, the character, the integrity that they have murdered".
During the day of tribute, Party militant cards were given to outstanding workers, and in the afternoon, the funeral honors that the people of the Hero City held that day were reedited in honor of Frank, of whom Army General Raúl Castro Ruz said: "he was upright in principles, organized and demanding, of a proverbial modesty, courageous to the point of recklessness and of uncommon intuition; he was the kind of man who penetrates deeply and definitively into the heart of the people".
