They say that the clocks of the town marked 2:00 in the morning when Fidel Alejandro, the third son of Don Angel Castro and Doña Lina Ruz, was born in Birán.

At that time, those close to the birth confirm, the local Haitians bathed the newborn with Yagruma and Berbena leaves "for good auguries," they said then.

In this way the life of one of the most important men in the world history began. Its legacy is not only attached to the limits of the Antillean nation, each extent of land in the world treasures a teaching, a memory or only treasures for itself the indelible mark of the eternal Commander.

The early childhood stage defined the Caguairán for all its fruitful life. People who had the opportunity to be with him during the offensives against the Batista army said that being a rebellious bearded man in the glorious years of the Sierra Maestra, more than once he directed his steps towards his homeland to give a hug to Doña Lina, already a widow and marked for the fright of the war that threatened every day the existence of two of its offspring.

Before, he had also huddled in the heat of the pine and cedar trees, which they say, his father liked to sow throughout the farm. He did it when he had already conceived the plan to assault the Moncada Garrison, it was a different visit and Fidel sat for a long time on the stairs of the house, he seemed to be saying goodbye to that place, his childhood, life, until that time elapsed.

Apparently, the good omens of the Haitians foreshadowed that this child would go on to posterity as an undisputed leader, who on his shoulders carried the responsibility of making his homeland the nation that José Martí dreamed of.

93 years after his birth the new generations, in the olive tree giant we find an inexhaustible source of wisdom, wise from which we drink to understand and defend the Revolution that he forged with his own hands.

Due to difficult economic and social strife, we travel the natives of this beacon of light and dignity, but as Commander in Chief Fidel Castro taught us, in the face of adversities we must grow, a first-order task in the current stage where potentialities must be used.

Today, almost a century after that glorious birth, Biran's watches once again mark an hour, but this time an eternal time, that of the ideas, commitment and convictions of that child who became giant and forged with his fortitude and courage a country.

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