José Martí’s legacy, a light to follow

To remember José Martí, this May 19, on the 124th anniversary of his fall in combat, is to reinvigorate our fighting spirit to overcome the inevitable blows of life.

A people that follows legacies such as those by José Martí and Fidel Castro will always be able to face any adversity and defeat it no matter how hard it may be.

We have already gone through the so-called “Special Period,” from which we never fully recovered, because the global crisis, on the one hand, and the U.S. economic and financial blockade, on the other, prevented it.

Martí’s resistance with the shackles in the quarry, prisoner, in exile. To overcome all its vicissitudes and to have the forces to organize the necessary war; to disembark on Cuban coasts and reach Dos Rio, where it would expose itself to death, and to die for the Homeland, all that serves us today to continue overcoming challenges and to continue saving the imperishable work of the Cuban Revolution.

Today we have to turn to our ethical and moral values instilled in us by Martí and Fidel, to continue the work that the first dreamed of and the second made real. We are entering a period in which some shortages are increasing. Through the different media, the appropriate information about the measures adopted by the pertinent authorities is made public.

José Martí has been and will be a constant reference for the Cuban people, from here it is an obligatory task to pay tribute to him as the inhabitants of Santiago de Cuba did in the mausoleum where his remains rest, and of Granma in Dos Rios, where he fell in combat on May 19, 1895.

Written by Radio Grito de Baire