With a legitimate sense of pride, gratitude and admiration, our people will celebrate the 66th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Few dates in our history are so significant in themselves. Few, like this one, that at the same time as synthesis constitute a starting point.
Many things came together on that unforgettable January 1st, 1959, when Fidel, at the head of a group of men and why not Heroes, decided the course of the future. Gone were the uncertain hours of the Granma’s voyage, the long months of training and preparation, the Moncada and the clarion call of November 30.
It was as if the tolling of the bell of La Demajagua could be heard again, it was again the exploits of Maceo, Agramonte, Gómez, the luminous images of Villena and Guiteras, the battle cry of Mella, the supreme sacrifice of Martí.
It was again, and now forever, freedom, the victory achieved after years of so much effort. It is exciting to look back, we grow deep and endearing respect when we remember how much of this present is and will always be part of the past.
And then we feel that we have a permanent debt with that past. It is comforting to stop halfway, to see what has been done. To compare what we still have to do. We know how many efforts and sacrifices the construction of our socialist society demands, but we are not frightened by the threats of the enemies of the North, because we think of those who fell, of those who gave their lives, because we trust in this people who know how to fight, resist and win.
May all those who since the times of the Moncada began to found this present receive a greeting born in a place of preference in our heart and may it reach our leaders who show us the way, a fraternal embrace and a communist oath that we will always know how to be faithful to the Revolution.