Representatives of the Cuban embassy in Costa Rica, the Costa Rican Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the Bolivarian Circle Yamilet López placed crowns and bouquets of white roses before the bust of the Apostle of the Independence of Cuba from Spain in the capital’s National Park, with a reduced capacity due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Juan Mesa, president of the Antonio Maceo Cultural Association of Cuban Residents in Costa Rica, stressed that Martí was a guide in the independence struggle against Spanish colonialism, and stressed that his legacy and ideology live on in the revolutionary process that began on January 1, 1959.
For her part, the second secretary of the Cuban embassy in Costa Rica, Maday Traba, extolled Martí’s phrase “if there is something sacred when it shines on the sun, it is the patriotic interests” and stressed that the Cuban Apostle points out the path of duty and not on which side you live better.
He pointed out that like every year, today they meet in front of his bust in this capital to pay tribute on the 169th anniversary of his birth to the most universal of all Cubans, and also to the political strategist and the exceptional patriot.
After indicating that he was the first to glimpse the hegemonic danger of the United States with respect to our America and also the first to outline a unitary policy to face this expansion, Traba extolled that this unity as a premise was adopted by our Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and continues in force today, as a beacon that guides the Revolution.
“These two years of fighting against Covid-19 and of attempts to destabilize the internal order in Cuba -sponsored and directed by imperialism, which it implements against the island, in addition to a tight economic blockade for more than 60 years, a war is not conventional fourth generation – have shown once again that strength lies in unity”, he underlined.
He referred that in his long pilgrimage through this continent as part of that arduous task of uniting wills for the independence of his beloved island and as Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party that he had founded in 1892, Martí came to Costa Rica twice, in 1893 and 1894. , to integrate General Antonio Maceo in those projects.
The Cuban diplomat maintained that by honoring Martí they also pay tribute “to his most thorough disciple, the undefeated Commander in Chief, the one who taught us to win, through a mass strategy that no one will be able to stop on the Caribbean island.”
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