The Young Communist League (UJC) in Ciego de Ávila has launched the Mi Fidel project, dedicated to encouraging youth participation in sites linked to local history or of significance in the national past.

Javier Águila Crespo, an official from the Provincial Committee of the UJC, explained that the initiative began on 24 February, in tribute to the 158th anniversary of the Cry of Baire, which marked the renewal of the struggles for Cuban independence.

«The project seeks to connect young people with history in general,» Javier explained, «but also with local history, the history that is right on their doorstep; because we often walk past a place that has significance, where important events occurred, and we know little about them.»

With the support of members from the National Union of Historians of Cuba (UNHIC), the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution (ACRC) and the José Martí Cultural Society, the Mi Fidel project is conceived as a presentation at these sites, accompanied by brief descriptions of the location and anecdotes about what happened there.

This first edition began with a wreath-laying at the bust of the Apostle in Martí Park and continued with a tour of the Provincial History Museum, Colonel Simón Reyes Delgado.

It then proceeded to the site where the fighter Jesús Suárez Gayol led a protest against the Batista dictatorship, and stopped at the plaque marking the spot where, on 7 December 1955, the revolutionary Raúl Cervantes was fatally wounded—the first Avilanian martyr in the struggle against the Batista dictatorship.

Other sites visited included the Hotel El Rueda, a symbol of the eclectic architecture of the Avilanian capital; the Obelisk to the Unknown Student; and the Camilo Cienfuegos Plaza.