“Gentlemen: the hour is solemn and decisive. The power of Spain is expired and consumed. If it still seems strong and big, it is because we have been contemplating it on our knees for more than three centuries. Let's get up! ”

The response to the call of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes on August 4, 1868 was swift. Two months later, on Saturday, October 10 of that same year, around 10 in the morning, the bell of La Demajagua sugar mill calls formation.

More than 500 men with only 36 firearms, including damaged shotguns, trabucos and revolvers, in addition to machetes and rustic spears gathered in the courtyard.

They were preparing to face an army of 80,000 soldiers between regular troops and the volunteer corps.

Céspedes pronounced the words that made the hearts vibrate, a rare oratory in the Cuban fields, the doctrine that led them to saddle the horses. He called his 53 slaves, proclaimed his freedom and summoned them to march together to emancipate the homeland.

The struggle began and 85 years after the momentous cry of Independence or Death! of the Revolution of '68, the libertarian clarion rang again on July 26, 1953 in the bloodied Cuba by a brutal tyranny, boosted by Yankee rule, which this time could not avoid the final victory of January 1, 1959, directed by Fidel, who embodied the ideas of Céspedes, Agramonte, Gómez, Maceo and Martí.

Our will of resistance, born on October 10, 1868 with the beginning of the independence struggles, gains strength before each new episode of Yankee barbarism against the Cuban nation.

This October 10 reaffirms the continuity of the Cuban Revolution to promote new combats and maintain the ideology of sovereignty in force for the construction of a prosperous and sustainable Socialism.

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