"I am alive miraculously", was the phrase that Gerardo Sosa Rodríguez once said when he remembered those days, when he decided to change the course of his country together with a group of men.

Because of his small size his companions named him Sosita, he without altering himself, argued that the stature of good men is measured from the head to the sky and not the other way around. Despite the blows of life he never lost his ability to smile.

He was born in Quivicán, on March 4, 1929, but he grew up in the capital. He always worked in the gastronomy sector.

When Batista's coup d'état, he used to work as a dependent at Tropicana’s cabaret and that same day, he was left unemployed.

He met Fidel before March 10. Sosa was member of the Orthodox youth and went frequently to Prado 109, where the members of that group met, there he saw Fidel for the first time.

He was one of those chosen to assault Post 3 of the Moncada Barracks. He is imprisoned along with other revolutionaries until the trial was held for the cause 37 of 1953 that is acquitted with a group of comrades in the month of October of the same year because they declared themselves innocent by Fidel's orders to continue the fight and reorganize the movement.

After 1959 he had various responsibilities, for many years he directed commerce and gastronomy, in the municipality of Diez de Octubre until he retired.

He received numerous decorations and distinctions for his services to the Homeland.

He died on March 14, 2008 in Havana.

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