Florida, Nov. 28.- Sixty-five years after that November 26, when the response of “I am the teacher!” unleashed the murderous rage of a teenage literacy teacher and his student, Pedro Lantigua, students and educators of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech primary school remembered the anniversary this Tuesday.
Speaking at the commemorative event, teacher María de los Ángeles Ojea, on behalf of the educators of the center, expressed the duty to continue the path that Manuel Ascunce bravely undertook, sustained by the vocation and example of those who offered their lives so that today in Cuba education is not only a right of the people, but a pride to show the world.
The moment was opportune to carry out the flag-raising of the pedagogical interest circles of the basic secondary schools and the pedagogical classrooms of the educational institutions at the primary level, with the presence of Niurka Turiño, head of that teaching, Belkis Álvarez Teja, deputy director of the General Directorate of Education, Ainelys Herrera Molina, deputy to the Cuban Parliament and representatives of the Ibarra Popular Council, relatives of the students and neighbors of the community.
During the act of homage to Manuel Ascunce Domenech, the literacy teacher Gumersindo Villegas Martínez shared anecdotes of the Literacy Campaign, a true feat of letters in the country, in which, like him, valuable young people and adolescents enlisted in the noble effort to instruct an entire people that until then remained mired in ignorance.
