Yetel Ricano Noguera
yetel@rvictoria.icrt.cu
Translation: Ernesto Gutierrez Pino

Las Tunas.- The sound of the alarm announced that the members of the new victorious caravan were near to greet the pedestrians, as it is already a tradition. They traveled the main avenue of this city with 51 children on board two trucks and a jeep to recall the passage of the Rebel Army by Las Tunas eastern province when the Revolution triumphed in 1959.

Children of the primary and secondary teachings of the municipality of Majibacoa, to the east of this city, began their homage to the combatants when they received the Cuban flag in a symbolic ceremony. They carried the National Symbol to the entrance of this city, were they were substituted by the same amount of children who also carried the flag to the exit of this provincial capital city.

They made a stopover at the downtown, at Mati Square, to express the historical reasons that motivated the guerrilla uprising and the final triumph that ended with the passage of the victorious caravan from Santiago de Cuba to Havana, headed by Fidel Castro and his followers who fought for a free Cuba.

A repaired truck, of the year 1952, was the mean of transportation used by the children during their journey while some members of the Association of Combatants recalled at the Square those days when they fought against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Bastista to finally greet the euphoric population.

Every year, on January 4 a new victorious caravan passes by Las Tunas, some 690 kilometers of Havana, as a symbol of freedom. A historical fact that is recalled all over Cuba with an interchange of different generations, the children and the adults, combatants of the Rebel Army of Cuba.
 

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