SANTIAGO DE CUBA.— The eternal flame of the Cuban Revolution advances from this January 10 throughout the country, carried and guarded by prominent young people from the most diverse sectors, who will take turns by municipalities and provinces, on the national route With the light of your ideas.
The symbolic initiative, promoted by the Union of Young Communists and the Martí Youth Movement, started from the Santiago necropolis of Santa Ifigenia, where the luminous example of Martí, Fidel, Céspedes, Mariana Grajales and a large host of heroes trace the path we must follow. preserve.
On the land of Santiago, on January 10 and 11, about twenty boys and girls will spread their message of patriotism and commitment to the municipalities of San Luis, Palma Soriano and Contramaestre, all places that knew of the Maestro’s footprint, until the delivery of Marti’s light to novices from the province of Granma, in the municipality of Jiguaní.
And the duty of all of us is to continue standing and say present, sentenced paraphrasing the Apostle, Yusuam Palacios Ortega, national president of the Martí Youth Movement during the act of beginning the tour, which was headed by the member of the Provincial Bureau of the Party on land indomitable, Yudelkis Ortiz Barceló.
Minutes before the lighting of the lanterns, which will spread their light of culture and freedom throughout the country, the young participants in the route together with the presidency deposited flowers in the National Hero Mausoleum, in the monolith that treasures the ashes of the eternal Commander en Jefe, in the graves of Frank País and Armando Hart.
The route With the light of his ideas constitutes one of the first tributes to the most universal of Cubans on the 170th anniversary of his birth and during the tour the participants will hold meetings in the communities along their path where they will deposit offerings, hold sporting events and have place artistic presentations and meetings of knowledge.