Cuba does continues astonishing the world for its unfailing position, for its firmness in the principles, for its tenacity in the defense of the Revolution.

Those who are skeptically wondering how can that be possible in a small island in the middle of the Caribbean, blocked, threatened, harassed to exhaustion, should review the story and thus they would have no doubts: the fight is not from now, the Cubans’ battle for the most precious good of man, freedom, began 151 years ago.

Today, those verses of the sonnet that the young José Martí wrote in 1869, a few months after the struggle for the liberation of Spanish colonial rule, have become more valid than ever:

It's not a dream, it's true: war cry
The enraged Cuban people throws,
The people that after centuries have suffered ...
From the cautious width to the scalar mountain range,
The cannon roars, and the warlike boom,
The barbaric oppressor, shuddered,
Groans, sobs and shy he panics ...

In them the answer is. It is in the virile position of Antonio Maceo in Mangos de Baraguá, that historic March 15, 1878, before the humiliating option of the Zanjón Pact, which left the legacy of revolutionary intransigence as a patriotic tradition.

The answer lies in Fidel and in that handful of men, who carried out the feat of Moncada, who approached the Granma yacht full of faith and security in the victory. It is in the courage of Frank, Abel and so many men who gave their lives for the same cause.

The answer is in this new generation of Cubans led by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, who on the eve of a day as bright as this one, for the island of freedom and within the framework of the Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Eleventh Legislature of the National Assembly of Popular Power would express between applause: We are not going to give up, we are not going to renounce, we are not going to be bribed!

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