The world gains strength when Heroes are born, when men of the lineage of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes emerge in history, the one who in October 1868 put on his shoulders the beginning of the wars for the Independence of our Homeland.
April not only evokes the spring with a radiant sun in his native Bayamo, April recalls his legacy, his vocation, his greatness with incomparable energy. The insurgent star is born, flooding with its light the fields of Cuba to become a sacred symbol to transform the destiny of the nation.
Even in the sugar mill of La Demajagua the ringing of its bells transcends, because the serene and courageous fighter is venerated, the man of fine sensitivity, the intellectual, the poet, the Father of all Cubans.
Céspedes, the Homeland’s Father
You became the Father of the Homeland, not because you were the first to open your arms to freedom, but because you enlightened a people who needed your ideas, your patriotism in defense of the oppressed.
Initiator of the anti-colonial combat; Bayamese lawyer who sacrificed his goods for independence; promoter of transcendental measures. Your strong revolutionary personality marked a milestone within the sector of the landowners of the time.
Today your Cuba venerates you forever, and in particular April, month of flowers, poems and songs for a man who transcends in the footprint, in the history of the homeland, because Carlos Manuel de Céspedes is a hero of rebellion and legitimacy.
