- The book entitled Máximo Gómez en Ciego de Ávila will be presented at the Fragua Martiana Museum, on the occasion of the 190th anniversary of the birth of the man born in the Dominican Republic and Cuban by conviction.
The 190th anniversary of the birth of the Major General of the Liberation Army, which will be marked on the 18th of this month, will be commemorated hours before the anniversary at the Fragua Martiana Museum, attached to the University of Havana, with the presentation of the book entitled Máximo Gómez en Ciego de Ávila.
According to Ángel Cabrera Sánchez, Master of Science and historian of the city of Ciego de Ávila, the promotion of the work will take place at the event El preso 113, which will be led by Yusuam Palacios, a distinguished Cuban intellectual and director of the museum institution.
The coordinator of the digital edition of the work also explained that it has contributions from 21 authors and the EdUNICA imprint, the Avilanian University publisher.
The volume has a total of 177 pages in three parts, in which mention is made of texts related to A Look at the Júcaro to Morón Trocha, the main combat actions, the invasion of the west in 1895, the machete that belonged to José Martí and was used by the Generalissimo, the commemorative constructions and other interesting matters, since the province of Ciego de Ávila is one of the places in the Cuban archipelago where the mark of Máximo Gómez is strongest.
«He was in 200 places,» stressed Cabrera Sánchez, giving examples: at Lázaro López, he crossed the trocha on nine occasions, carried out the La Reforma campaign and cut off at the root Pando’s autonomist attempt. Here he received his first wound, gave the last pure machete charge, moreover at night, and successfully assaulted what is now the provincial capital.»
He said that, during the commemoration of the anniversary of Máximo Gómez’s birth, several activities will take place, among which he mentioned the broadcasts, next week, of five programmes from the Senderos slot on Radio Surco, directed and hosted by Ángel Broche Ruedas, Artist of Merit of Cuban Radio, whose broadcasts will address, among other matters, the meeting of Gómez and Maceo in the pastures of Lázaro López, when the Invading Army was founded on 30 November 1895.
«Historical memory, identity and Cubanness will have those radio productions as a valuable alternative for teaching our sacred history in the face of the Yankee project of cultural colonisation, whose essence is to achieve the forgetting of our people, who, with stoicism, suffer but also resist with mambí morale,» emphasised the prestigious university professor and specialist at the Provincial Historical Archive of Ciego de Ávila.
