Three years after the passing away of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, his great legacy survives in the eastern province of Granma, where children, youth and adults keep him alive both in memories and through daily life.
From his house or in the plots that he still cultivates in the Bartolomé Masó town, the combatant Félix Pérez Gómez, who was member of the José Marti Column One of the Rebel Army, evokes the Commander in Chief as the father of Cuba.
At the age of 101 and with good memory, the active and cheerful old man tells how he met Fidel in the middle of the war, and relives his conversations with Fidel about the danger which the wealthy landowers represented to the farmers, before the triumph of January 1st, 1959.
These dialogues would be the prelude of a significant event in his life, when in 1960 the guerrilla chief himself, then president of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, handed him the property deed, with a phrase that Pérez Gómez repeats with pride up to now: “Take Felix, now you are the owner of the land.”
For his part, Reyniel Fonseca Ramírez had the privilege of being one of the young people chosen in 2002 to accompany the Commander in Chief in the inauguration of the Program of Computing in primary education, precisely in Granma, the young teacher is happy to keep that conquest in the mountains of the Buey Arriba municipality.
For eight years ago, Fonseca has taught the 10 students of the José Rodríguez Celeiro multigrade school, located in Limones community, where the Fidel’s commend of spreading out technology in isolate place of the Sierra Maestra comes true with a computer and a solar panel, he added.
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