Havana: A wave of youth, from the first step to the last of the Staircase of the University of Havana, illuminated this Monday the memory of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, in the third year of his physical departure, Cubadebate publishes.

Thousands of students reached these steps, a place that is part of Fidel's revolutionary trajectory, where, hours after the news of his death in 2016, right next to Alma Mater an honor guard who paid tribute to him began until his burial in Santa Ifigenia.

The president of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Commander of the Revolution, Ramiro Valdés, the vice president of the Council of Ministers, Roberto Morales, leaders of mass organizations and students, and especially, the intellectual Frei Betto, came to the university hill.

Under the name "Fidel Antimperialist", the political-cultural gala focused on highlighting how the Commander dedicated his life to dealing with injustice, defending the dispossessed and alerting about the interference intentions of the northern giant. From the voice of the general secretary of the Young Communist League, Susely Morfa, came a message of resistance and continuity.

“We have a Revolution we have sworn to take care of, with weapons in hand, from the trench of ideas. In Cuba we still have many works to build, thinking as a country, together and with the guidance of the Party, Raúl and Díaz-Canel” Morfa said.

On the Commander she said: “The pain was profound; Cuba's soul lived Fidel's departure. His figure reached another dimension. Being like him is not a slogan, but a duty of those who are committed to the Revolution. ”

Yaser Castañeda, Flavia Mirabal and the National Concert Band gave life to the theme El mambí, a theme composed by Luis Casas Romero. Later, the oral narrator and art instructor of Guantanamo, Tomás Pantoja, declared the poem “Escribo Fidel” authored by Jesús Cos Cause.

When Vocal Sampling and a girl from La Colmenita sang El elegido, the enthusiastic audience began to applaud and those applause multiplied when this group sang the iconic theme Girón, el preludio.

The roots of the culture of the Greater of the Antilles could not be missing in a gala that paid tribute to Fidel, that's why the National Folklore Ensemble arrived on stage to dance Rumbero. Luis Franco, a young troubadour of the Hermanos Saíz Association, recalled the song of Silvio Rodríguez, Por quien merece amor, because love from an entire people was something that the Commander won.

The decimas of the repentista Antonio La Villa and the poem "I am Fidel" made the University Staircase vibrate, which was illuminated to the beat of the Moncada group with Mi historia crecerá and Saberse cubano, theme of Kiki Corona, in the voice of Kiko Ruiz and Vocal Renacer.

Thus the gala ended, with a tide of hands, hands of the Cuban youth, the one that defends Cuba and the project that the Commander in Chief built. The leader of the Revolution was present last night, multiplied in hundreds of young people who shouted very loudly "I am Fidel."

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