As part of the 122nd anniversary of the resumption of independence wars, the Cuban Embassy in St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrated the 58th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution and paid homage to the national hero José Martí and Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
In her speech, Vilma Reyes Valdespino, Cuban Ambassador to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, recalled the events that surrounded the date, which began the second stage of the struggles for independence and highlighted the vision of José Martí, To the Cubans against two adversaries: the Spanish colony and the danger of the giant of the North.
The diplomat recalled that February on 24th, but in 1958, the "Radio Rebelde" radio station, the voice of a Martist, Fidelist and the Cuban Revolution, was created in the Sierra Maestra. The participants had occasion to listen to a recording of the first airing of the radio station.
The event was attended by Cuban volunteers, members of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-Cuba Friendship Association, the Association of Cubans living in SVG, trade union leaders, officials and Vincentian and foreign diplomats, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, together with his wife, as well as the President of Parliament, Jomo Sanga Thomas, and Minister of Economic Planning, Sustainable Development, Industry, Information and Labor, Camillo Gonsalves.
The new generation of Cubans living in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, had a prominent role in the act. The youths Michel Israel and Mathew Israel, children of the President of the Association of Cubans living in SVG, staged a passage from the uprising of February 24, 1895, culminating in the "touch to slaughter" and the "Invasion Hymn."
The Association of Cuban residents in St. Vincent and the Grenadines issued a declaration of rejection of the recent provocation, orchestrated by counterrevolutionary elements in Cuba and another condemning the blockade and demanding the unconditional return of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base.