HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 27 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuban President, recalled today Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, the Father of the Homeland, on the 27th anniversary of his death.
“Cubans: I count on your heroism to achieve independence. I count on your virtue to consolidate the Republic. Count on my abnegation,” quoted the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, on X, to the independence hero when he assumed the Presidency of the Republic in Arms on April 11, 1869.
In his message on the social network, the president assured that Cuba honors that legacy.
Also on X, Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla pointed out the validity of the Cuban patriot’s thought when he said: “As far as the U.S. is concerned, maybe I’m wrong; but in my opi