José Martí is honored in Vietnam

Hanoi, Jan 28 (RHC) Cubans and Vietnamese gathered on Saturday at the Tao Dan central park-garden to pay tribute to José Martí, 170 years after his birth.

José Martí´s bust was erected there 20 years ago to make good his saying “to honor, honors”, said Cuban Ambassador Orlando Hernández Guillén, who reviewed José Martí´s in-depth revolutionary work.

We´re talking about José Martí and it is also essential to talk about the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, his best disciple and greatest exponent of the Centennial Generation, the one that knew how to put into practice Martí´s doctrines and exalted his saying: the Homeland needs sacrifices. It is a plough and not a pedestal, Guillén said.

At the ceremony, Le Tuy Truyen, vice president of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association, recalled when he studied journalism at the Central University of Las Villas Marta Abreu and wrote his first article dedicated precisely to José Martí.

Tuy Truyen also praised what he considered a fortunate decision, that of erecting the bust in memory of the independence hero in a place where, to this day, it remains escorted by seven royal palms, the most common tree in the Cuban countryside. (Source: Prensa Latina)