It is celebrated in Cuba every May 17 in commemoration of the murder of the humble peasant Niceto Pérez García.

The final recognition of the memory of Niceto Pérez was made by decision of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz in choosing this day, May 17, 1959, to promulgate the Agrarian Reform Law, a fact that happened in La Plata, Sierra Maestra, place where the Command of the Rebel Army was placed during the war against the government of Fulgencio Batista.

The First Law of Agrarian Reform is the most important and transcendent law signed after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. It is the law that grants land to Cuban peasants. From that moment the lands began to pass into the hands of their true owners and materialized one of the postulates of History Will Absolve me.

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