Members of the capital’s youth and student organizations will gather at the steps of the University of Havana to march to the Fragua Martiana (Museum of Marti’s Forge), where teenage Marti was imprisoned for his pro-independence ideas.
The night torches parade, usually attended by the nation’s highest authorities, will welcome January 28, the birthday, in 1853, of the man considered the Apostle of Cuban independence.
The Cuban Young Communist League (UJC) informed that all the country’s provinces and municipalities will carry out similar activities as an unequivocal sign of the new generations’ support for the Revolution.
The first March of the Torches took place on the historic steps of the University of Havana on January 27, 1953, to wait for Jose Marti’s 100th birthday.
That initiative was an act of protest against the crimes of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship (1952-1958), who had seized power in a coup a year before.
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