2010.10.09 - 21:38:12 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- President Raul Castro and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Saturday sent floral wreaths that were placed before the monument dedicated to independence hero Carlos Manuel de Cespedes —known as the Father of the Homeland— at the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana during the main national ceremony to commemorate the 142nd anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban independence struggles.">2010.10.09 - 21:38:12 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- President Raul Castro and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Saturday sent floral wreaths that were placed before the monument dedicated to independence hero Carlos Manuel de Cespedes —known as the Father of the Homeland— at the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana during the main national ceremony to commemorate the 142nd anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban independence struggles.">

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Cuba Commemorates 142nd Anniversary of the Beginning of Independence Struggles

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  • 10 / 11 / 2010

2010.10.09 - 21:38:12 / [email protected]. HAVANA, Cuba.- President Raul Castro and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, on Saturday sent floral wreaths that were placed before the monument dedicated to independence hero Carlos Manuel de Cespedes —known as the Father of the Homeland— at the Plaza de Armas in Old Havana during the main national ceremony to commemorate the 142nd anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban independence struggles.

The event was presided over by Culture Minister and member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of Cuba’s Communist Party Abel Prieto.

During the ceremony, Eduardo Torres Cuevas, director of the Jose Marti National Library, highlighted Cespedes’ gesture when, on October 9, 1868, he called all his men together —including slaves— and announced that the independence war against Spain would begin the following day.

“It was not only a transcendental practical action but also the expression of his ideals and the main elements that led to the beginning of the war against slavery and the colonial power,” he said.

“From then on, all revolutionaries and patriots knew that they would only be free, socially and politically, after winning independence with social justice, as conceived by Cespedes since the very beginning,” he added.

Division General Antonio Enrique Lusson, vice president of the Council of State, and Brigade General Delsa Esther Puebla also placed a floral wreath in the monument from the Office of the Havana Historian, along with others sent by several institutions.

Source: ACN

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