127 anniversary of the restart of Cuba’s independence war

Nairobi, February 24, 2022- At 127 years of the restart of Cuba’s independence war, the Embassy of Cuba in Kenya commemorates that date by recalling the verses of our Rubén Martínez Villena when about that feat and its main author, he wrote:

 

“There was a long break in the bloody trace;

There were reborn dreams and feverish desire

And long seventeen years revived the flame

That like in a volcano set the hearts on fire.

 

The call for freedom in Baire was heeded

In the golden shine the symbol came to light

And in the heat of the storm a new star glittered

A Titan’s hand showed up ready to fight.

 

February twenty-four; forty years of war

The blood ran through the land extending more and more

So it was time to reap the harvest of Martí

A star so pure like a child’s beloved dream

Ruby-coated climbed up like in a tree

Breaking through between blue and ermine pleats".

 

 

 

127 years later, Cuba continues defending that glorious legacy inherited from a sacred history.