HAVANA, Cuba, May 1 (ACN) The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Army General Raúl Castro, and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, presided over the popular parade for May Day, at the José Martí Revolution Square in Havana.
Just as the Cuban leader had called on the people to demonstrate unity and continuity, as the landscape of a Revolution in power, to fill the squares for the heroism of the resistance and the inspiring triumph of collective creativity, for the vaccines and the vaccinated, so the entire national archipelago dawned early in the morning to celebrate the International Workers’ Day.
Raul and Diaz-Canel were joined by other leaders of the Party, government and State, of the Young Communist League, of social and mass organizations, Heroes and Heroines of Labor, as well as more than a thousand delegates from some 50 nations participating in the International Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba.
Due to their outstanding confrontation with the COVID-19, an epidemic that for two years prevented the celebration of a May Day in person, some 50 thousand workers of the Public Health and BioCubaFarma are part of the first of the 17 blocks that will march, representing an equal number of unions and the 15 municipalities of Havana.
Flags with the colors of the national flag, giant banners of union leader Lázaro Peña and slogans alluding to the date adorn the historic esplanade of the capital, where thousands of compatriots with their enthusiasm, slogans and songs, as in the rest of Cuba, will demonstrate the unity and commitment to the Party, the Revolution, its historic leaders and its continuity.
“This small country, with a genocidal and brutal blockade, has jumped over its own limitations, shortages and uncertainties, to achieve what others with greater resources could not,” Díaz-Canel recently pointed out on the social network Twitter, under the hashtags #CubaViveYTrabaja and #NosVemosEnLaPlaza.
Precisely the condemnation of the blockade will be felt again in squares and avenues across the nation this May Day, including in the voices of hundreds of foreign friends who love and admire the Cuban Revolution.