The flames embrace with fury a piece of that land. Anguish and sadness are mixed with black columns of smoke that expands with the wind. Silence and weeping accompany the city under tension because of the danger.
The fire, at the Supertanker Base, surprises and frightens; it starts a trail of destruction and pain in the soul of the nation.
To hear wailing; to invoke the sky; to acclaim nature, is unforgettable. A new disaster strikes Cuba.
The wound becomes deeper, after three months without recovering yet, arriving again a bewilderment before an unusual, heartbreaking event, for which we were not prepared.
However, firemen, rescuers and brave people from many parts of the Island do not rest in another Civil Defense exercise, leaving inscribed the name of many heroes and martyrs.
In Matanzas tranquility does not exist today, but there is confidence that we are fighting against adversity to restore calm with the truth always, before those who try to overshadow reality.
For the “Athens of Cuba”, the world solidarity raises frontiers, because it is well known that the health system multiplies wills to overcome shortages.
When calm returns to Matanzas, the soul of its inhabitants will be happy again, demonstrating that the gift of this island is to resist creatively, to survive united in the adversity of a people that has plenty of courage and humanism.
