Monday, April 11, 2011 6:40 cliffs of the southern coast of Baracoa in eastern Cuba.
was after 10 pm on that date when they disembark at Playitas of Cajobabo in the town now Imías: José Martí, the political leader, organizer and inspirer of the new clarion call, and Maximo Gomez, commander supreme, the shrewd and uncompromising revolutionary, a symbol of internationalism and modesty, and Francisco Borrero, Angel Guerra, Cesar Salas and Mark del Rosario.
The diary of our apostle says, "... arrived at a rocky beach (The little beach at the foot of Cajobabo). I stay in the boat the last emptying. Salto. This great ... "
The expedition had left Montecristi towards Cuba on April aboard the schooner Brothers. A day later they came to the island of Great Inagua, where they discover the next day that the sailors have defected and prevents them from continuing on immediately.
is April 5, after the futile search for a new crew, addressing the German freighter Nordstrand, who was bound for Cap-Haitien, northern Haiti, and then to Port Antonio , on the north coast of Jamaica. The captain of the ship that is sympathetic to the cause of Cubans took to the expedition disguised as passengers.
's arrival Martí and Gómez was received with great jubilation by the people, especially those from the jungle fighting for independence.
Playita of Cajobabo It is where progress begins Marti, known as Path of Glory, and that led him to travel about 400 kilometers of roads full of hazards and multiple barriers, to Two Rivers, where they fell fighting on 19 of May, 895.
His comrade in arms, Marcos del Rosario, visited the site on April 23 thousand 922, and identified the specific point of landing and proposes to erect a monument that was not really up to one thousand 947. Even today the waves make the same leisurely swing that welcomed their heroes 116 years ago.
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