Mayabeque, Cuba: April 9, 1958 is part of the most memorable events in the history of Cuba, at the call of the July 26 Movement, thousands of young people tried to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
The hard setback caused hundreds of victims, but despite the failure it served to accelerate the victory of January 1, 1959.
The strike of April 9 was one of the saddest events of the last stage of the struggle and claimed more than a hundred victims throughout the country, most of them young people eager to give their homeland: freedom.
This was a very hard lesson given to the importance of revolutionary unity, learned at the cost of the spilled blood of the best of the Cuban youth of that time, and it was a milestone in our history.
Restituto Alonso, Venancio Núñez, Daniel Pérez Amaro, Humberto Hernández, all children of this land of Mayabeque offered their lives.
Their example multiplies in the leading role of the new generation of Cubans.
Indira La O Herrera
Periodista en Radio Mayabeque
