With the panel Francisco Vicente Aguilera, the Father of the Republic, started today, in Bayamo, the 17th  scientific event ¨Nada tengo mientras no tenga Patria¨ (Nothing I have while I have not Homeland), which pays homage to that outstanding Cuban patriot on the 197th  anniversary of his birth.

Damiana Pérez Figueredo, director of the Sociocultural Research Center House of the Cuban Nationality, located in the capital of the province of Granma, highlighted that the opening debate was in charge of the historians Eduardo Torres Cuevas and Ludín Fonseca.

In this regard, she recalled that the Apostle of Cuba´s independence, José Martí, described Aguilera as the heroic millionaire, the exemplary gentleman, the father of the Republic.

Pérez noted that the meeting brings together researchers and professors from Las Tunas, Holguin, Santiago de Cuba and the host territory, who will analyze, among other topics, the historical and cultural processes related to the emancipation movement on the island and the first stage of the call Big War.

Until next Saturday, she said, there will also be spaces for exchange on the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the independence struggles in Cuba and the popular premiere of the lyrics of the National Anthem.

This edition  have as second venue the coastal city of Manzanillo, where important activities will take place, such as the tribute to the late researcher Wilfredo Naranjo Gauthier, for his contributions to the knowledge and promotion of local and regional history, she added.

On the 23rd, in the National Monument City, the people and participants in the event will pay the traditional tribute to the patriot, on the occasion of his birth, with a political and cultural ceremony at the Retablo de los Heroes, mausoleum that keeps his remains, added Pérez Figueredo.

Sponsored annually by the House of Cuban Nationality, the meeting arose to promote the analysis of local history, through the figure of lawyer and politician Francisco Vicente Aguilera y Tamayo, who was born in Bayamo, on June 23, 1821.

“Nothing I have while I have not homeland” is the best-known Aguilera´s phrase, who inherited a great fortunes and sacrificed it for the freedom of the Homeland. In absolute poverty, he died on February 22, 1877, in New York.


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