The atrocious crime of Barbados, in which 73 people died in a Cubana plane, on October 6, 1976, was remembered on Sunday at the Pedro Batista Fonseca Sports Initiation School (Eide) in Bayamo.
Students of that institution made a solemn role call of the 24 members of the Cuban youth fencing team, who died in that tragic event, whose main authors were the terrorists of Cuban origen Orlando Bosh Ávila and Luis Posada Carriles.
During the tribute Suniel López González, provincial fencing commissioner, stressed that we must not forget history, especially the facts related to revolutionary sport.
He recalled that in that aircraft, in addition to the 24 young fenders who had won all the gold medals in the Central American championship, held in Venezuela, another 33 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and five Koreans traveled.
He also stressed that the masterminds of the mass murder lived free in the United States, thanks to the complicity of successive governments of that country, which falsely fights terrorism.
The homage was attended by professors and leaders, headed by Marcelino Guerra Rosabal, Granma delegate of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and Noredín Rodríguez Corría, director of Sports in the province.
In the act performed the singer Ary Rodríguez and Teniente Rey, who sang patriotic songs. (By: Osviel Castro Medel / PHOTO: Rafael Martínez Arias)
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