The purity of Romárico Cordero’s spirit of rebellion remains intact in Ventas de Casanova, where gratitude is still perpetual, remembering the birth of a peasant leader who gave himself body and soul so that men and women could remain on the land without exploitation.
Romárico Cordero is a living example that transcends in the memory and action of his Cuba; he is intelligence and energy that did not limit himself to confront the government of the day, but after the victorious January, he continued tirelessly defending the peasantry of the nation.
The first Agrarian Reform Law treasures his contributions attached to the poor peasants, in defense of noble hearts that lacked education and social rights, exempt from a transformation towards superior forms of agricultural production.The concept of unity to confront the evictions, abuses and outrages of the oligarchy of the time, is still spread in Realengo 18, San Felipe de Uñas and Baragúa, among other places of the Island, where the ideas of Romárico Cordero never die.
President of the National Peasant Association of Cuba, it was this immense man, to always remember, who also contributed experiences in the preparations for the Peasant Congress in Arms.
After 124 years of Romárico Cordero’s birth, his name and trajectory ride in Ventas de Casanova, in his native Bayamo; his convictions widen in the young peasantry that is on the road to food production.
At the foot of the furrow, Contramaestre honors the leader who defended the craft of the art of sowing, of the work whose hands are plowing the road to reap fruitful harvests; that humble man who made one of the Moncada’s precepts come true so that the land in Cuba would have its true owners with the right to its soil and to social justice.
