Havana, Oct 28 (RHC) Cuba remembers today the Commander of the Rebel Army Camilo Cienfuegos, known in the Caribbean country as the Hero of the Rebel Army Camilo Cienfuegos, known in the Caribbean country as the Hero of Yaguajay, 64 years after his physical Yaguajay, 64 years after his physical disappearance.
As a prelude to the ephemeris, thousands of people paid tribute in Havana to Cienfuegos, who was also known by the Cuban people as “Señor by the Cuban people as the Lord of the Vanguard.
A pilgrimage departed from the José Martí Revolution Square to the capital’s coastline to the capital’s coastline, where participants threw flowers into the sea as a tribute.
Cienfuegos physically disappeared on October 28, 1959, when the plane in which he was returning to Havana fell into the water.
After days of intense search, the historical leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, expressed: “Men like Camilo Cienfuegos emerged from the people and lived for the people. Our only our only compensation for the loss of a comrade so close to us is to know that the people of Cuba know that the people of Cuba produce men like him. Camilo lives and will live in the people.
His remains were never found, hence the tradition of the Cuban people to bring him flowers to the sea.
When the war of liberation began, the Lord of the Vanguard -born on February 6, 1932 in Havana – began to stand out because of his conditions as one of the most relevant soldiers of the Rebel Army, in which he reached Rebel Army, in which he reached the rank of commander.
Between mid-August and the first two weeks of October 1958, he led an invasion column that he led an invading column that moved from the Sierra Maestra to the central part of the largest of the Antilles, where he also led successful where he also led successful actions.
His personal sympathy, jovial character, loyalty and bravery to the fullest, as well as his ability to connect his ability to connect with the masses, made him worthy of popular affection and and trust of Fidel Castro and of the Argentinean Cuban Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, with whom he maintained a close friendship.
(Taken from RHC)
