Like a metaphor for persistence, Cuba celebrates International Workers' Day. And does it with joy, with enthusiasm, with the streets full of colors and the people who support, in stubborn resistance, the nation.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Four days after the traditional date, this May 5, the popular celebration is also a tribute to the Prometheus of Trier: Carlos Marx, on the 205th anniversary of his birth. In a world riddled with asymmetries, the workers continue to be the standard-bearers of veteran struggles; also in Cuba where, in addition, they have the merit of promoting, creating, innovating, facing, and overcoming deficiencies and a commercial, economic, and financial siege that makes life more difficult.

The expression and the desire that each Cuban put hands and heart into the Homeland contains the key of these times. As a sign of commitment to love, the phrase touches the present in which work, unity, and commitment to perfect and continue advancing in the work of the Cuban Revolution are required, perhaps more than before.

The moon still seemed like a nocturnal sun when the first ones arrived at the Plaza, the early risers of a day in which the national essence emerges with its trail of heroes, its symbols, conga beats, and traditional music... bustle and party. This is how the people of Las Tunas live the celebration, always accompanied by students, peasants, fighters, youngsters, and all the people.