CAMAGÜEY.- Arriving at the 98th birthday of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, his time here is remembered in this region.

Although officially the 26th of July 1989 was the last time he was in these areas to celebrate the Day of National Rebellion, he was on more than one occasion in transcendental events for the province.

Precisely at the inauguration of the Plaza de la Revolución Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz, in Camagüey, on that 26th, Fidel spoke to the people.

(…) if tomorrow or any other day we woke up to the news that a civil war had broken out in the USSR, or even if we woke up to the news of its disintegration (…) even in those circumstances Cuba and the Cuban Revolution will continue to fight and will continue to resist.

But the Commander in Chief's passage was not recorded only at that moment, and in his aspiration to see the territory become an example of impetus for the Cuban economy, he approved the development strategy with a view to the exploitation of tourism with the construction of the Jigüey-Romano-Cayo Cruz causeway in that same year.

Currently, in that space to the north of the territory, the largest hotel project in Cuba is being developed, and it has already four hotels in operation with an infrastructure that advances by the month and where important foreign chains such as Iberostar are immersed in the investments.

Aware of the importance of the economy for the well-being of the people and the country in general, another of the moments that are remembered in this land comes with the inauguration of the Tínima Beer Factory, an event led by Fidel in 1985 after an agreement with the now defunct German Democratic Republic.

A decade earlier, in May 1976 on another tour of this province, Fidel arrived at the construction works of the Party School, a site to which he returned in 1987 and urged us to turn Camagüey into a model for the construction of socialism, recalls the current professor of the institution, Maritza Álvarez.

With the 98th birthday of one of the most emblematic figures, representative of fair causes at a global level, in this territory to the east of Cuba, the figure of Fidel Castro rises again, a standard-bearer in complex times, an eternal example for the new generations of Cubans.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez