Santiago de Cuba.— The intense working day of the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba yesterday was marked by the commitment with the Homeland. When a soft wind was blowing the plumes of palms of the Santa Ifigenia patrimonial cemetery, the First Secretary of the Central Committee and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, placed a bouquet of flowers in front of the monolith that treasures the ashes of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
Accompanied by the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization, Roberto Morales Ojeda, the president also honored José Martí, National Hero; Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Mariana Grajales, Father and Mother of the Homeland, as a token of the continuity of the only Cuban Revolution, which began on October 10, 1868.
Díaz-Canel went to the cemetery, National Monument, where some one hundred thousand Santiago inhabitants, representing the Cuban people, made a pilgrimage last December 4, on the eighth anniversary of the deposit of the ashes of our historic leader. Previously, he had evaluated the socio-economic situation of the municipalities of the provinces of Guantánamo and Santiago de Cuba, as well as the progress of the recovery of San Antonio del Sur, after the attacks of hurricane Oscar.
