The homage was paid this morning, with the provincial concert band marking the passage, and the presence of the main political authorities of Las Tunas.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- A large group of local inhabitants went through the streets between the Maceo Park and the Vicente García Cemetery to celebrate the life of the martyrs of the Revolution. Because there are many ways to be alive and some beings, Martí taught us, until after death, give sunrise light.

The pilgrimage returns every December 7 to this city. Today, 125 years of the fall in combat of Lieutenant-General Antonio Maceo and his personal assistant, Panchito Gómez Toro; also 32 of the end of the Tribute Operation, which returned to Cuba the mortal remains of internationalist soldiers fallen in Africa, fighting against the apartheid.

Students, internationalist combatants, retirees, and very especially, relatives of those who gave their lives in that epic; all, together, part of the visceral people who do not forget their children and continue to make history from this daring and sobering present.

Already in the necropolis, the voice of Yasmani Rodríguez La Rosa was heard, the first secretary of the Young Communist League (UJC) in Las Tunas. "Loving the country is to understand that Céspedes preferred to let one of his sons die before deposing arms; that Mariana made her husband and sons swear they would liberate the Homeland or die; and that Agramonte, in the difficult moments of the war, claimed that the shame of the Cubans was enough to win it."

He also remembered Fidel and said that the blood of the martyrs reaches us as a generational legacy and assured that the road leads us, invariably, to a better world.

Flowers, tears of the mothers who have never been the same since their children entered as heroes in the entrails of the homeland, and even pride for the intense work of all in these difficult times marked the tribute. A day in history that is a presage of continuity.