Santiago prepares
mass tribute at Almeida’s burial on Tuesday
José Antonio Torres
THOUSANDS of people in Santiago will fill the
streets of that heroic city tomorrow, Tuesday, to
pay tribute to Commander of the Revolution Juan
Almeida Bosque, during the procession to the
mausoleum of the historic Third Eastern Front of the
Rebel Army, where the military ceremony for his
burial is to take place.
Lázaro Expósito, first secretary of the Communist
Party in the province, said that the funeral cortege
will leave Santiago’s military airport at 7 a.m. and,
as it as it passes along the route, the people en
masse will pay tribute to Comandante Almeida.
The procession will take in the city hall, where,
on January 1, 1959, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro
announced to the world the triumph of the Revolution;
later, before moving on through other municipalities,
it will pass cross the area of the former Moncada
Garrison’s Post No. 3, now the 26th of July
Educational Complex. After that, it will go to Cruce
de los Baños.
After this tribute by the people, Almeida will be
interred in a private ceremony on the crest of La
Esperanza Hill, where the mausoleum stands. That
hill is the final resting place for 40 combatants
from the guerrilla detachment of the Third Front,
founded on March 6, 1958.
