April 9, 1958 is part of the most glorious events in the history of Cuba. At the call of the July 26 Movement, thousands of young people tried to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The heavy setback caused hundreds of victims but, despite this, served to accelerate the triumph of January 1, 1959.

The failure of the revolutionary general strike was one of the most painful events of the last stage of struggle of the Cuban people for their liberation and claimed more than a hundred victims throughout the country, mostly young people eager to free their homeland.

This was a very hard lesson about the importance of revolutionary unity, learned at the cost of the blood spilled from the best of the Cuban youth of that time and was a milestone in our history.

More than 60 years after that event, the people of Güines paid tribute today to the fallen, in an act carried out in areas of La Anacahuita farm. Restituto Alonso, Venancio Núñez, Daniel Pérez Amaro, all sons of this land of Mayabeque, gave their lives. Their example is multiplied in the prominence of the new generation of Cubans.

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