Raúl Gómez García, was born in Güines, on December 14, 1928, the ideas and the Marti program were rooted in the most intimate of his personality. In the Apostle he thought when he walked the streets of his native town.

He was nine years old when he formed a baseball team; there has never been much talk about that passion. He learned to swim perfectly in a river in the village.

Since his adolescence he collaborated with student publications and radio stations, as well as civic events. He had the spirit to divulge the redeeming ideas that, as a child, were transmitted to him by his family descendants of mambises.

At the age of fourteen he enrolled in the Güines Secondary School, he stood out as an athlete and also for his great ability to write. He collaborated with the newspaper El Estudiantil, denouncing the different problems that were happening. He accused the then director of the center for his immoral attitude of selling notes and abuses with teachers and students.

Teacher, poet, combatant, is one of the clearest exponents of the magnificent youth who launched the revolutionary assault on July 26, 1953. He was only 24 years old and had developed and deeply matured his political thought.

He fell in the year of the centenary of the Apostle, fainted, his lips opened to utter other words than those of his verses to Marti. He was bleeding profusely from his mouth, his teeth had been pulled out, his hands were tied, and he was resisting the whips of the lash with complete fortitude. A few minutes later there was a machine gun discharge. Gómez García is the pride of Mayabeque.

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