Havana, December 7 (RHC) -- With the placement of floral offerings at the tomb of Frank País and the Pantheon of the Fallen for Internationalism, the people of Santiago paid tribute this Saturday to the heroes, in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery of this city, while remembering the 128th anniversary of the death in combat of Antonio Maceo.

Frank is especially revered, one of the prodigal sons of Santiago de Cuba, the David of clandestinity, a struggle that he knew how to organize and lead in an exemplary manner, becoming the National Head of Action and Sabotage of the 26th of July Movement, the insurgent nucleus that in the cities of the largest of the Antilles faced the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

On the day that marks the 90th anniversary of his birth, the people of Santiago pay special tribute to him, including, in the early hours of the morning, the placement of fresh flowers on his grave, in the patrimonial cemetery of Santa Ifigenia; conversations about his life and work in different places, including the Frank País Garcia house-museum; as well as an artistic evening scheduled for three in the afternoon at the Martí theater.

Likewise, today marks the 128th anniversary of the death in combat, in Punta Brava, in western Cuba, of the strong mulatto from Santiago, Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army, who for his bravery transcended the history of the country with the epithet of Bronze Titan.

For Antonio Maceo Grajales, there are also many forms of homage, one of them organized by the provincial branch of the Union of Historians of Cuba, with Dr. C. Dámaris Torres Elers, who will be speaking about the Maceo imprint in the Amado Ramón Sánchez Bookstore-Athenaeum on Enramadas Street.

On the patriotic day of this December 7, what was called Operation Tribute is also recalled, with which the mortal remains of men and women who lost their lives in fulfillment of proletarian internationalism arrived on Cuban soil in 1989.

In each of the cemeteries in the province of Santiago de Cuba, flowers are placed before the niches where the remains of the internationalists are deposited, and their human values ​​are exalted in prose and verse.    (Source: Trabajadores).