Georgetown, May 11, 2020. In her speech, the Counselor of the Embassy of Cuba, Ana Violeta Castañeda expressed: The National Hero died on the banks of the Contramaestre river, to the hum of the leads of the Spanish army. «The shots hit the Master's body, the overhead light bathed him, released the bridles of the steed, and his loosened body went to lie on the beloved Cuban land. Of his revolver, tied around his neck by a cord, not a single cartridge was missing, "Professor and historian Rolando Rodríguez described that May 19.
Consistent with his life and his sensitivity as a poet, he considered war a necessary evil to achieve what was his highest endeavor: the independence of Cuba. He did not need to use bullets to end an empire and bequeath to us trenches of ideas to confront another, North American imperialism, which he defined in his last letter to his dear friend Manuel Mercado.
Every aggression by imperialism has found a response from a people determined not to let the apostle die, which would be to let the country die.
One hundred and twenty-five years after his fall in combat, Cuba carries itself the decorum that it bequeathed to us, it goes through the world-saving, and it is its heirs who today make the preaching that Homeland is humanity.
Facing the imperialism accused by Martí as destined to plague the world with horrors, the health workers, all representatives of people in solidarity, rise up. As used to be before the internationalist brigades were arriving in revolutionary Spain, giving their lives to the cry of "They will not pass", followers of Che's internationalism, of the fighters for the independence of Africa, today the health workers are example and dignity, they are the star that illuminates the entire homeland.
It is not possible today to forget in this tribute, the famous Martiano, the most faithful follower of his example, the one who did not let the apostle die in the year of his centenary, Fidel, who made the country a reality with “all and for the good of everybody". Proud is the people who can have as a beacon in these fateful days, the light of people like them whose legacy is a learning and a challenging source for all of us that we can let die neither now nor ever.
Eternal glory to our heroes
Eternal glory to Fidel.
Eternal glory to the Teacher, the most distinguished of Cubans.