Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Santa Cruz del Sur, Camagüey, September 19.— José Raúl Matamoros Pérez, a Santa Cruz native and a combatant of the Cuban Revolution, has long kept a June 11, 2007, edition of the Granma newspaper.
The avid reader found in its pages a historic article written by Fidel in which he denounced the crimes, abuses, and corruption of the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
On June 17, 1955, the young lawyer and top leader of the 26th of July National Movement (M-26-7) wrote a lengthy article for the newspaper La Calle, as on previous occasions, in which he exposed the abuses of tyranny against his fellows of similar ideals and the massacre of several members of the Centennial Generation captured in the attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
The police raided the newspaper office and confiscated the copies of that day's edition. It was believed that the text of the article written by the revolutionary leader, placed on the linotype presses in the workshop, had been left in the possession of regime servants. However, anticipating the search, journalist Raúl Quintana kept what Fidel had published until his death in 1994.
During that time, Fidel had to face numerous attacks, including those directed at his family and comrades in struggle. The situation became unbearable, so he decided to leave for Mexico with brothers of patriotic convictions to prepare for the fight. He later returned clandestinely on the yacht Granma with the 82 expeditionaries for the defining battle.
With great affection for the meaning of the writing, Matamoros Pérez, also retired from the fishing sector, zealously guards the old newspaper Granma. The government lies in favor of great interests during the neo-colonial era, the exploitation of the humble, the injustice and crime revealed by the brave Martí follower will not happen again in Cuba. (Text and photo: Raúl Reyes Rodríguez/Radio Santa Cruz)
