Fresh flowers before his tomb in the Mausoleum of the Third Eastern Front Mario Muñoz today symbolize that Commander of the Cuban Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque is remembered after 14 years of his death.

Santiago de Cuba.- The offerings were placed on behalf of Army General Raúl Castro and the First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, as well as the people of Cuba and Esteban Lazo, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power.

As is now tradition, hundreds of inhabitants of Cruce de los Baños, the head town of that demarcation that is the total work of the transforming process initiated after the insurrectionary triumph of January 1, 1959, went on a pilgrimage to the monumental complex in Hope Hill.

The evocation of Almeida has a focal point here in Siboney Studios, at the Recordings and Musical Editions Company, founded under his inspiration more than 40 years ago and in which the musical potentialities of the Cuban East found their channel.

A musician himself, with over 300 compositions, his mark has a singular exponent in the city, in the sculpture located on the façade of the Heredia Theater that remembers him as one of the three Commanders of the Revolution, along with Ramiro Valdés and Guillermo García.

The humble mason definitely entered national memory as an assailant to the Moncada Barracks, along with Fidel Castro and young revolutionaries on July 26, 1953, and an expeditionary member of the Granma yacht that arrived on Cuban shores on December 2, 1956. (PL)

Cuba honors Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (ACN) Cuban authorities evoked today the life and work of Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, on the 96th anniversary of his birth.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, highlighted on Twitter Almeida’s career as a fighter in the Rebel Army, his artistic work, as well as the respect and affection of the people, which he always deserved.

Cuba remembers him as the humble man he always was, kind-hearted, heroic, patriotic. This is how we remember you, Comandante, wrote Prime Minister Manuel Marrero on the same social network.

The Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the PCC, Roberto Morales Ojeda, recalled a fragment of a text of the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, days after the death of the Commander of the Revolution: «Let’s not say that Almeida has died! He lives today more than ever!».

Salvador Valdes Mesa, Vice President of the Republic, evoked the well-known phrase of the combatant: «Nobody surrenders here…! which became an emblem of the resistance capacity of Cubans.

Juan Almeida Bosque (February 17, 1927 – September 11, 2009) exclaimed those words in 1956, before the enemy’s call to surrender, after the first armed confrontation of the emerging Rebel Army in Alegria de Pio, where the inexperienced combatants were almost massacred.

Previously, Almeida had participated in the assault on the Moncada Garrison (July 26, 1953), for which he was imprisoned, and after his exile in Mexico, he sailed on the Granma yacht to eastern Cuba together with 81 other expeditionaries, to begin the guerrilla war against the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista.

During that period, he earned the rank of Commander and founded and led the 3rd Mario Muñoz Front, in which, in addition to the 6,000 square kilometers he covered, he won the love of the people.

After the triumph of the Revolution (1959) he held numerous responsibilities as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the PCC since its founding in 1965, vice president of the Council of State and president of the Combatants Association.

In addition to his revolutionary work, he also had a prolific musical and literary work, including more than 300 musical pieces and nine books.

Commander Juan Almeida Bosque is remembered in the Union de Reyes

The Juan Gualberto Gómez Municipal Museum hosted the event to pay tribute to the Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque.

In the central words, the provincial president of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution and Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve, Roger Almeida Rodríguez, expressed that although Juan Almeida is not physically in our lives, he is present in every combatant of the Revolution, in every soldier. of the homeland, in each student and is found in the town.

“Studying and knowing our history is an everyday task, as it is one of the most valuable treasures we have,” said sixth grade student Adriana Delgado Alonso from the “Fabricio Ojeda” Primary School.

¡Juan Almeida

On the other hand, he said that the pioneers represent the relief of the Revolution and that they will support all assigned tasks from their organization.

During the political-cultural activity, the card was delivered to the new members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. (ALH)

Translated by Casterman Medina de Leon

With Juan Almeida Bosque

Commander of the Cuban Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque