Call to participate in traditional March of the Torches

Havana, Jan 23.- Authorities of the Party, the Government, and social, mass, and youth organizations in the province called for participation in the traditional March of the Torches in this capital, with the additional motivation of celebrating the centenary of the birth of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.

In a plenary session held at the "Camilo Cienfuegos" Theater of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap), some logistical and mobilization issues were discussed to ensure the wide turnout of people, especially young people, which characterizes this event year after year on this event.

Meyvis Estévez Echeverría, First Secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC), urged those present to attend with full awareness of the reasons that move and make them march, at a time of heightened difficulties and threats, but which cannot defeat the will of Cubans to resist and overcome.

The youth leader also called for paying tribute from the historic staircase of the University of Havana to the 32 fallen Cuban combatants during the aggression perpetrated by United States forces in Venezuela last January 3rd, and to influence that anti-imperialist conviction reaffirmed in recent days in the March of the Combatant People.

"As always, we count on the response of the capital and its youth in organizing this event, also mobilized by the example of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution in the year of his centenary," she noted.

Raúl Palmero Fernández, First Secretary of the UJC in Havana, shared details of the concept of the March, which will be guided under the slogan: "Centennial Anti-imperialist Torch."

He pointed out that these concepts emphasize the relevance of the thought of National Hero José Martí and Fidel, while confirming the march itself as an act of cultural and political resistance in the face of the growing threats from the US administration.

Accompanying the meeting were Livan Izquierdo Alonso, First Secretary of the Party in Havana; Luis Morlote Rivas, Deputy Head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Party; Reynol García Moreira, Vice Governor of the capital; among other officials from the Central Committee, Party and Government authorities in the capital, and representatives of mass and student organizations and the General Directors of Education in the territory.

The March of the Torches, in memory of National Hero José Martí, was held for the first time at midnight on January 27, 1953, on the eve of his centenary.

73 years after that event, another centenary invites to the same gathering for the permanence of those same ideals of justice and sovereignty among the new generations of Cubans. (ACN) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)