Cuban President Pays Tribute to José Antonio Echeverría

Cuban President Pays Tribute to José Antonio Echeverría

The president also visited the birthplace of the leader of the University Student Federation, where he appreciated the legacy of Echeverría preserved there. At the cemetery, Díaz-Canel spoke with students from the Universities of Matanzas and Medical Sciences about the attack on the Presidential Palace and the seizure of Radio Reloj, events that occurred on March 13, 1957. The Cuban president’s visit to the municipality of Cárdenas today continu…

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The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, paid tribute this Thursday in the necropolis of the western municipality of Cárdenas to the student leader José Antonio Echeverría, 68 years after his death. The president also toured the home of the leader of the University Student Federation. The post Díaz-Canel paid tribute to José Antonio Echeverría first appeared on Cubadebate.

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Cárdenas, Matanzas- Dawn in the campanto of Cárdenas. It is March 13 and 68 years have passed since those events that shook a country. Even the family pantheon, where the remains of José Antonio Echeverría rest, arrived the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, to pay tribute to the student leader, murdered this day of 1957, very close to the Uni…

Young people often ask him about José Antonio Echeverría, the student leader who lost his life in the actions of March 13, 1957, at the height of his youth, at barely 25 years of age.

Matanzas, Cuba, 13 Mar (Prensa Latina) The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, today paid tribute in the necropolis of the western municipality of Cárdenas to the student leader José Antonio Echeverría, 68 years after his death. The post Cuban president pays tribute to José Antonio Echeverría first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.