Fidel was riding at the front on the road to freedom. Victory was getting closer and closer. The Battle of Maffo was the decisive blow. The National Liberation Movement marked the itinerary towards Santiago de Cuba. The destiny was fixed with clear ideas.
To annihilate the enemy troops stationed in BANFAIC was the strategic plan to march in the victorious footsteps of a rebel Operation.
The Giant of universal stature and his guerrillas persisted in the triumph, embracing the Moncada precepts to give his Cuba the dreamed freedom, schools for instruction, health to save lives, the Agrarian Reform for the peasant crops and bread to ensure food.
Maffo, a fortress to defeat
The yearning for justice burned in every bearded chest. The green olive tree shone in a town where heroism trembled after 20 days of combat in a singular December, to break Maffo’s fortress and consolidate the great victory of the people, thanks to the rebel forces.
The former Banco de Fomento Agrícola e Industrial de Cuba passed into good hands that December 30 to become today a necessary industry in the economic development of the nation, to exhibit a rainbow of colors in a demarcation that revives its history.
