Cuban First VP Congratulates Bayamo City on 500 th Anniversary

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Miguel Diaz-Canel Congratulates Bayamo City on 500 th Anniversary Cuba, Nov, 7th - Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice President of Cuba, congratulated today the people of this city for founding, maintaining and propagating the patriotic spirit, the most important thing of a country.

After attending the solemn session of Bayamon’s Popular Power Municipal Assembly, the leader made statements to the press in which he recalled the founding, in 1513, of this village with the name of San Salvador of Bayamo. He said that the remembrance showed the permanent commitment of this town to the revolution begun by their predecessors in 1868 and continued now by the Cuban people.

Rather than celebrate the creation of a Spanish villa, they have highlighted the birth and forging of the homeland, initiated in the region, which center was Bayamo, he said.

The act was also attended by Salvador Valdes Mesa, State Council Vice President, Ulises Rosales, vice president of the Council of Ministers, and the Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias, member of the State Council.

The Municipal Assembly granted recognitions to the Heroes of the Republic of Cuba Guillermo Garcia Frias and the retired Colonel Fidencio Gonzalez Peraza; Lazaro Exposito, Cuban Communist Party first secretary in the province of Santiago de Cuba, and scientists Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras and Jorge Berlanga.

The distinctions were also given to Dr. Emilio Perez Profet, educator Luis Ramirez Villasana and disabled athlete Leonardo Diaz.

The Granma Provincial Historical Archive donated to the Municipal Assembly copies of original documents from 1901, when the Dominican-Cuban hero Maximo Gomez was declared Honorary Citizen of Bayamo, and he appreciated the gesture.

Eusebio Leal, Historian of Havana, said the village of San Salvador, like many others, was settled where there was a native community, and thus began the racial mixture from which Cuban people was born.

Leal highlighted important figures and facts of local and national histories, including Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, initiator of Cuban independence wars, his mate Perucho Figueredo, The Bayamesa song, the creation of the National Anthem and the patriotic burning of the village by its residents.

Tuesday's activities began with the laying of wreaths on behalf of the Cuban people at the monuments of Cespedes and Figueredo in the Revolution Square, named that way in 1868.

Diaz -Canel and his companions others made the cancellation of stamps from the first day, on the occasion of the anniversary, in front of the monument reminiscent of telegrapher Ismael de Cespedes, whose timely warning prevented the arrest of separatist leaders in 1868.

According to historians, at the arrival of the Europeans, Bayamo was a large Aboriginal community, and a Spanish troop settled here before the creation of the village of San Salvador.

It is said this one was founded in 1513 on a hitherto unknown point, and then it was moved to the current location.

Source: Radio Cubana