[NYTr] Frank Pais, an Example for Cuban Youth

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Granma Daily - Jul 31, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art103.html


Frank Pais, an Example for Cuban Youth

An eternal flame was lit for Cuba’s heroes and martyrs at a ceremony
attended by Raul Castro at Santiago de Cuba’s Santa Ifigenia Cemetery

By JOSE ANTONIO TORRES

SANTIAGO DE CUBA.— "The Revolution is upheld by Jose Marti’s principle
of never letting the sword fall and in continuing to be faithful to the
memory of the heroes of Cuba," said First Vice President Raul Castro
Monday during a tribute to Frank Pais, hero of the clandestine struggle
against the Batista dictatorship.

Presiding over a ceremony in front of the mausoleum at the Santa
Efigenia Cemetery containing the remains of Cuban National Hero Jose
Marti, Raul Castro lit an eternal flame in honor of the martyrs of the
homeland. A memorial plaque was also unveiled paying tribute to all who
have died defending Cuba, as well as those who have offered their lives
in international causes abroad.

Between music, flowers and the remembrance of important moments of the
underground struggle against the Batista dictatorship, the voices of
several generations of Cubans were raised to ratify their support of
the principles that became the moral shield of the Cuba’s socialist
project.

Amaurys Quintana, deputy secretary of the Provincial Committee of the
Young Communists League, said the human values of Frank Pais are an
example for new and future generations.

"For those of us that had the honor of working next to him, his death
was an irreplaceable loss —said fellow combatant Luis Felipe Rosell—
but in the midst of the pain caused by his assassination we knew how to
continue fighting and move ahead. For that reason from the pedestal of
the heroes, we state that Frank continues to be together with Fidel and
Raul at the helm of the country."

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Frank Pais and his
comrade Raul Pujol a floral wreath sent by Commander in Chief Fidel
Castro was placed at his tomb. Earlier in the day other flower reefs
sent by the Council of State and Ministers and the Association of
Combatants of the Cuban Revolution were also placed at the memorial.

Similar tributes took place at the tombs of Raul Pujol, Rene Ramos
Latour, the Diaz brothers and the July 26, 1953 Combatants Pantheon and
the November 30, 1957 uprising.

The tribute started at sunrise Monday, with honor guards and political
and cultural activities that took place at Frank Pais birthplace, the
Callejon del Muro, where he and Raul Pujol were assassinated and the
Placita de los Martires, the gathering place of young revolutionaries
in Santiago de Cuba city during the days of the clandestine struggle.

The activities adjourned with a massive pilgrimage by thousands of
citizens of Santiago in homage to Frank Pais and all the heroes and
martyrs of the Cuban Revolution.

At the end of the tributes, Raul Castro, accompanied by Commander of
the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque and Politburo members Esteban Lazo
Hernandez, Ramon Espinosa Martin and Misael Enamorado Dager, visited
the tomb of Frank Pais and recalled the life of the leader of the July
26th Movement.