The people gathered to pay posthumous tribute to the brave combatants fallen on Venezuelan soil.

The Las Tunas’ people, along with their main leaders, paid tribute with profound sorrow and revolutionary pride to the 32 combatants who fell in defense of the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its legitimate president, victims of a new and cowardly aggression and state terrorism action.

Their loss hurts, pierces our chest, and brings tears to our eyes.

You never met them, never exchanged a word with them, they are not your relatives, friends, or neighbors, but their loss hurts, it pierces your chest, it brings tears to your eyes.

Cuba pays honor to 32 lions of Martí's lineage.

When they grow up, when they can understand the depth of offering their lives for a shared dream, the little ones who in this fatal January had their fathers' embrace cut short by the murderous claw of the empire will no longer believe in superheroes with capes and supernatural powers, but in the fierceness of being on the front line, because it is an honor and a duty not to betray our America.

Osbel Lorenzo Rodríguez, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Las Tunas.

Full text of the speech given by Osbel Lorenzo Rodríguez, First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in Las Tunas, at the Provincial Ceremony for the 67th anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution, held on December 24 in the municipality of Las Tunas.