Remains of
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez moved to his native city
• Fidel and Raúl send
wreaths to the solemn ceremony on the centenary of
his birth
Julio Martínez Molina
CIENFUEGOS.—Wreaths in the name of
Fidel and Raúl were placed at the pantheon in the
Tomás Acea Cemetery, where the mortal remains of
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, previously interred in
Havana’s Colón Cemetery, were laid to rest in the
city in which he was born on May 23, 1913.
The solemn ceremony, which took
place on the centenary of the birth of the
outstanding political leader, humanist and
intellectual, was attended by Council of State Vice
President Salvador Valdés Mesa; José Ramón Balaguer
Cabrera, member of the Central Committee Secretariat;
Rodrigo Rodríguez Zanabria, member of the Provincial
Bureau of the Communist Party; Provincial Government
President Mairelys Pernía Cordero, and members of
Carlos Rodríguez’ family.
Valdés Mesa noted that it is the
responsibility of the current generations to move
forward and consolidate the process of updating the
country’s economic model in order to perfect our
society, and make it sustainable and prosperous, the
objective for which Carlos Rafael Rodríguez lived,
dreamed and fought.
Dania Rodríguez, daughter of the
revolutionary, who died in Havana in 1997, stated
that the family warmly welcomed the idea of his
remains being laid to rest in Cienfuegos, his native
city, which he never abandoned and where he is
dearly loved and remembered.
The urn bearing his remains was
placed in a niche designed by Oscar Rodríguez, an
architect at Havana City Historian’s Office, after
an artillery salvo and military march played by the
Revolutionary Armed Forces Chief of Staff Music Band.
During the conclusion of the central
event marking the centenary in the Tomás Terry
Theater, Dr. Eduardo Torres-Cuevas described Carlos
Rafael Rodríguez as one of the most powerful
intellectual brains of the Cuban 20th century, who
clearly appreciated what a revolution such as the
Cuban one represented.
