Camagüey, Oct 21. – Camagüey natives of different generations gathered again this morning on San Pablo Street to reenact the first march of the combatant people, which on this date in 1959 was led by Commanders Fidel Castro Ruz and Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán.
On that date, more than 50,000 people from Camagüey supported the revolutionary leaders, who arrived unarmed at the former Ignacio Agramonte Military Regiment to put an end to the seditious plans of the head of the Rebel Army, Hubert Matos.
On the morning of October 21, Fidel arrived in Camagüey and, from the former headquarters of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, united those who wished to maintain the freedom achieved just months before at the cost of the blood of thousands of Cubans.
The newspaper Adelante then published Camilo's words, with gratitude to the locals and the historic phrase: "There may be traitorous men, but not traitorous peoples, and even less so the people of Camagüey."
Juan Carlos Blanco Lores, first secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Union of Young Communists in Camagüey, said that today we face the same enemy as 66 years ago, with its constant bet to divide and deceive us; and he emphasized that in the former Agramonte barracks, Camilo and Fidel are born as education and future.
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A representation of local workers and students is retracing the same route as in 1959, this time led by Walter Simón Noris, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba; and Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, governor of Camagüey. (Text and photos: Idaylén Rodríguez Rodríguez and Diosmel Galano Oliver/Camagüey Radio Broadcasting Information System)