That young man was not an extraterrestrial; that 25-year-old combatant did not care about his own costs or benefits, because he launched himself dreaming of the possibility of a free Cuba.
Diosmedes Silveira Valdés is one of those young men who became a legend, in poetry, as martyrs know how to do, as did those intrepid men who were right.
In the memory of his Maffo, today he is remembered as the immense human being, as the sublime soldier, whose deep-rooted impulse led him to believe that the Revolution would change his life for the better.
