The Cuban Embassy in St. Vincent and the Grenadines celebrated the 122nd anniversary of the resumption of the wars for the independence of Cuba, with an activity in which the 58th anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution was celebrated and homage was paid to José Martí and To Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
The Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves and his wife, as well as the President of the Vincentian Parliament Jomo Sanga Thomas and the Minister of Economic Planning, Sustainable Development, Industry, Information and Labor, Camilo Gonsalves, honored the important Cuban celebration with their presence.
Before a large audience, made up of Cuban collaborators, Vincentian graduates in Cuba, members of the Association of Friends of St. Vincent and the Grenadines-Cuba, the Association of Cubans living in SVG, trade union leaders, Vincentian and foreign officials and diplomats. The Prime Minister took the floor to greet the important Cuban ephemeris and to recall the enormous merit of those who began the struggle against Spanish colonialism, seeing from that time the dangers that beset the island from the great nation of the North.
Dr. Ralph Gonsalves pointed out that those wars of the nineteenth century against colonialism laid the foundations for those who, in the twentieth century, achieved the total and true independence of Cuba.
The Prime Minister also recalled that on February 24, 1848, the Communist Manifesto, written by Carl Marx and Frederick Engels, had been published for the first time.
The Vincentian Prime Minister recalled Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro and his gigantic contribution to the theory and practice of the Revolution and proletarian internationalism. He noted that St. Vincent and the Grenadines Airport is, probably, the only one in the world, where a portrait of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz is installed, as a sign of the recognition and gratitude of the Vincentian people.