Homage to the loyalty of heroes

Silence, homage, certainties, hope. It dawns at the foot of the mountain of Mícara. Along the path that leads to the imposing Mausoleum of the Second Frank País Eastern Front, the wagons advance with the mortal remains of 40 combatants who are going to join hundreds of others who are already resting here.

 

Attentive to every movement, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, founding chief of this guerrilla Front, friend and brother in the struggles of such courageous revolutionaries. At his side, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

 

The melody Hasta pronto, by Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, accompanies the ceremony of transfer and burial of the remains of the combatants of the Second Eastern Front, fallen during the liberation war or who died after the triumph of the Revolution.

 

The voices of command tear the silence, everyone stops in unison. Solemnity takes over every space, and the notes of our National Anthem burst into the mountains.

 

For our glorious dead is the first remembrance, said the Commander of the Rebel Army José Ramón Machado Ventura, also a combatant of this Front. In his words, the evocation of the life and work of all of them, who continue "accompanying our people with the strength that emanates from their example, in the unwavering commitment to carry forward the Revolution".

 

He said that this site, like many others in the homeland, "is not a stage for formal commemorations, but a treasure chest that treasures the paradigm of resistance and victory that our dead have bequeathed to us". Their valuable inheritance, he stressed, is "a shield against which the lies and siren songs of our enemies crash, and at the same time a weapon that makes us stronger in each new combat".

 

The relatives of the combatants accompanied the ossuaries to the burial mounds, while the names of the 40 guerrillas were heard.

 

With the example of one who has not rested for a moment in that imperishable struggle to build and defend the work of the Cuban Revolution, the Army General advanced towards the Eternal Flame, which burns, as he once said, for "all the freedom fighters, immolated or heroically fallen in this territory throughout the historical process from Hatuey to Fidel"; for "all the graves scattered in the mountains and valleys of the Second Front", and for "all those who, knowing it or not, cemented with their blood our present and teach us to be able to follow their example for generations to come". There he left a white rose.

 

Then he went to meet his beloved Vilma. In front of the monolith that guards her ashes, he stops, deposits a flower and gives a military salute. He does it with the firmness that deserves such an incomparable companion of struggle, and with the tenderness of one who, together with her, shared so many years of life and dreams.

 

CONTINUE "ACCOMPANYING OUR PEOPLE WITH THE STRENGTH THAT EMANATES FROM THEIR EXAMPLE"

1. Commander of the Rebel Army, Major General Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado.
2.  Commander of the Rebel Army, Colonel Manuel de Jesús Céspedes Fernández.
3.  Commander of the Rebel Army, Major General Antonio Enrique Lussón Batlle.
4.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Brigadier General Jorge Raúl Fernández Marrero.
5.  Commander of the Rebel Army, Major Carlos Julio Iglesias Fonseca.
6.  Rebel Army combatant, Major General Rubén Martínez Puente.
7.  First Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Major General José Ramón Fernández Álvarez.
8.  Rebel Army combatant, Asela de los Santos Tamayo.
9.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Brigadier General Orlando Lorenzo Castro.
10.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Colonel Gilberto Antonio Cardero Sánchez.
11.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Brigadier General Juan Aníbal Escalona Reguera.
12.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Colonel Tomás Manuel Pena Vega.
13. Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Colonel José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera.
14.  First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, colonel Calixto Enamorado Forman.
15. Captain of the Rebel Army, Lieutenant Colonel Joel Pardo Guerra.
16. Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Colonel Roberto Sosa Rodríguez.
17.  Rebel Army Captain, Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Celestino Reynoso Reynoso.
18.  First Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Colonel José Armando Trutié Matilla.
19.  First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Colonel Teodoro Pereira de la Rosa.
20. First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Major Antonio Botey Morales.
21. First Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Colonel Pedro Guelmes Gonzalez.
22. Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Captain José Antonio Borot García.
23. First Lieutenant of the Rebel Army, Lieutenant Colonel Félix Nicanor Cardero Sánchez.
24. Rebel Army lieutenant, captain Jorge Luis Fajardo Franco.
25. Rebel Army Lieutenant, Colonel Carlos Alfonso León Oduardo.
26. Rebel Army Lieutenant, Colonel Eloy Rodríguez Téllez.
27. Rebel Army Lieutenant, Captain Ángel Rafael Meneses García.
28. Rebel Army Sub lieutenant, colonel Migdalia Jacobo Elías.
29. Rebel Army Lieutenant, Lieutenant Antonio Manuel González Rodiles Planas.
30.   Rebel Army Lieutenant, Lieutenant Colonel Eloy Paneque Blanco.
31. Rebel Army lieutenant, first lieutenant Luis Mariano Ortiz Benítez.
32.  First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, first lieutenant Ramiro Eulogio Vasallo Leyva.
33.  Rebel Army Lieutenant, Lieutenant Félix Rodríguez Bravo.
34.  Rebel Army combatant, Major Doyla Noa Ramírez.
35.  Rebel Army combatant, combatant Ramona Teresa Ruiz Bravo.
36.  First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, colonel Rafael Balart Perera.
37.  First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, first lieutenant Miguel Ramos de Armas.
38.  Captain of the Rebel Army, Colonel Teobaldo Nicolás Castillo Berenguer.
39.  Rebel Army combatant, combatant Rubén López Vázquez.
40. First lieutenant of the Rebel Army, soldier Primo Enrique Hernandez.