Contramaestre was the birthplace of a craftsman who became a symbol of the homeland, a paradigm of courage and dignity, a mambi of all times, Juan Fajardo Vega.
Guayabal, his native village, never forgets the existence of this man, enshrined in history as the Last Mambí. This fertile land of that piece of soil remembers the tillage of Juan Fajardo Vega.n
He was born to help his father and his large family.
From deep roots for the Independence of Cuba the Liberating Army was nourished, the one that incorporated to its ranks a young boy of 16 years with thirst of justice and renovating hopes.
The War of 95 treasures this valuable name that made the emancipation of independence its main mission.
The freedom of Cuba was the unstoppable impetus for the defense of the Homeland, after the search for a true peace of an Island that demanded to throw away the dangers of the time.
Juan Fajardo, under Almeida´s commands
His worth, also proven in the Rebel Army as armorer of the Third Eastern Front, demonstrated his greatness as an anonymous man from the depths of the Cuban people, always identified with the humble, with whom he shared his fate as one more.
His eyes were the last to see the Liberation Army, the last to see Antonio Maceo alive. It was Juan Fajardo Vega, that soldier admired by Fidel, who surpassed 105 years of age to say goodbye with evident lucidity and physical endurance.
After 141 years of that eternal birth, Contramaestre evokes you very close, intact, enduring.141 years have passed since that eternal birth and Contramaestre evokes you very close, intact, enduring; it remembers your imprint in a dimension of light and glory that leads us with proven gallantry from the sublime altar of heroes.
