A cowardly end still lingers in the history of Cuba as an open wound. Blindfolded, hands tied and eight medical students executed is the crime that extinguished the joy of life of innocent young people.
The assassination, perpetrated on November 27, 1871, stirred up the feeling of independence in the Cubans, propelled the ideals of freedom in the Island, prisoner of the Spanish yokes.
Colonial Cuba mourned the injustice moved by resentment and intimidation, the injustice of a trial that led to the scaffold a handful of boys almost children, without any criminal responsibility and unaware of what was coming.
Those medical students did not desecrate Gonzalo Castañón’s grave, as they were falsely accused. They only had dreams to fulfill, they were enjoying the freshness of age, who saw the joy of living happily cut short.
A legion of hungry hyenas unleashed their hatred on naive souls, to see the blood flowing on dead bodies that saddened the air of that Havana afternoon.
Cuba felt a deep contempt towards the government that caused the crime in the esplanade of La Punta, where the eight first year medical students were shot.
Its people mourned their departure in the midst of silence, sadness and pain.
The corpses thrown into a common grave, do not deny the entrails destroyed by the evil people of Spanish colonialism, by bloodthirsty beasts that at the end of two and a half months recorded in the books of the cemetery of Colon the burial certificates, as bodies that were buried as alms.
153 years after that fateful event, Cuba does not forget its eight medical students vilely murdered, does not forget the horror committed against those young people massacred on November 27, 1871, who helped with their innocent blood to cement the patriotic feelings of an entire people and in particular of today’s youth.
