Cuba lands once again at Cajobabo, the homeland’s sacred altar
127 years after the landing of José Martí and Máximo Gómez, along with other expeditionaries, at Playita de Cajobabo, Cubans return to the scene of the events to relive history

Author: Dairón Martínez Tejeda | internet@granma.cu
april 12, 2022 10:04:29

One hundred years after Martí’s landing at Cajobabo, Fidel immortalized the event as a symbol of continuity, of a single Revolution.

Photo: Estudio Revolución
127 years after the landing of José Martí and Máximo Gómez, along with other expeditionaries, at Playita de Cajobabo, Cubans return to the scene of the events to relive history.
Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez noted the importance of the date, on Twitter, evoking the words of Fidel who said that Martí had, on that day, cast aside the chains that had bound him throughout his life in Cuba’s independence struggle, describing the landing as “an extraordinary feat,” and the site as “a sacred place.”
The glorious event annually convokes hundreds of those committed to the ideas of Martí and Fidel, revolutionaries who follow the path of the Apostle on the road to building the society he dreamed of. April 11 is a source of pride for the nation and the region, selected by the Provincial Assembly of People’s Power in Guantánamo as the most significant event in history in this part of Cuba.
The people of Imías, who had the privilege of receiving the National Hero and his companions, children, youth and adults alike, march to the monument, crossing the rocky paths that Martí once walked. Relive the landing, the “leap,” the “great joy,” and with songs, poetry, dance and speeches professing the same patriotic love that propelled the expeditionaries’ oars, in honor of the martyrs, of Fidel and all those who throughout history have defended Cuba’s freedom throughout the course of their lives.
Additionally this April, some 50 researchers investigating Cuba’s wars of independence, from the provinces of Pinar del Río, Havana, Matanzas, Sancti Spíritus, Cienfuegos, Las Tunas, Holguín, Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo are in the province to participate in the XXVII Playita de Cajobabo Workshop, an event organized by the Union of Cuban Historians and the José Martí Cultural Society, April 10- 12, which includes a visit to the Salustiano Leyva museum, the home of the first family that welcomed the heroes after the landing.