Ceremony in la Sierra Maestra, Granma for the Day of the Cuban Farmer

According to Cubavison channel, this morning in Providencia, Sierra Maestra in Granma province, a national event is held to commemorate the Day of the Farmer and the 60th anniversary of the First Agrarian Reform Law.

There the president of the District remembered the precarious conditions in which the inhabitants of the zone used to live and the eviction they suffered under the government of Fulgencio Batista.

The representative of the district recognized everything that exists there, it is thanks to the Cuban Revolution: primary medical assistance, schools, shops, a community built by the Cuban State for workers and farmers of the place. In addition to a systematic attention to the producers especially of coffee, main business of the zone.

Fidel Castro’s wise decision to enact the First Agrarian Reform Law on May 17, 1959, ended with the large landownership, predominant throughout the national territory, ignored by the rulers who preceded the revolutionary government installed less than five months before.

With this law, more than 100,000 families benefited in the first instance, and in the long run all the people benefited from the subsequent productions, and equitable distribution for all.

This first law affected the U.S. companies that had taken over the large properties of which the governments in Cuba at the service of the United States had no control.

The aggressive position of the North did not take long to realize that the Cuban Revolution was radical and would defend the interests of the people above everything. So, from 1962, he officially implanted the economic and financial blockade against the Island to date.

In spite of the pressure at all levels, the Cuban people have known how to draw lessons from every critical moment, from every aggression, from every imperial attempt to deprive them of what cost them so much blood on the battlefields from October 10, 1868 until January 1, 1959.

Written by Jorge Lora