The seeds of the education sowed by Fidel

50 years ago he gave to children and young of Camagüey a school city, formerly military barracks “Ignacio Agramonte.”

Por:Enrique Atiénzar Rivero

November 27, 1959-to almost a month of the Commandant Camilo Cienfuegos` tragic disappearance - Fidel returned to Camagüey and he received the back multitudinary of the town again in a concentration, without precedents, taken place in the current square “Joaquín de Agüero”. The motivation of the Historical Leader of the Revolution of meeting with the people of Camagüey went different to that of October 21, dates in that the sedition of the treacherous Húber Matos was neutralized. This time he came to give the children and teachers the old barracks “Ignacio Agramante”, transformed into school city, and to inaugurate the hospital “Amalia Simoni” in the tract of the double via “Carlos J. Finlay” toward the airport.

Present witness of the appointment in the formerly military installation and of the act, as the retired José Luis Cadenas, remember both events like momentous, each one with its peculiarities.

In the first one, to see that show-as Fidel qualified him - of thousands and thousands of children with Cuban flags next to their teachers, a reality that marked forever to this town.

From one improvised and converged tribe

na spoke to the president Osvaldo Dorticós; the minister of Education, Armando Hart Dávalos, and Fidel in an educational enaltecetor environment: 52 classrooms for the teachings preescolar, primary and of basic high school, without being neglected other details: schools of plastic arts, dramatic and technical, library, museum, clinic medical estomatologic, in short, everything for the well-being of the new generations.

The concentration of that afternoon was recorded in Fidel's mind. He went so when looking toward Chains he asked for the possible figure of participants. The man shrank of shoulders, he knew that there was an extraordinary crowd, but he didn't know how to calculate the number.

“But, when saying goodbye, I love them that thanks to you we leave today of this county with the doubled energy, with the doubled faith and with the enthusiasm doubled to continue ahead.”

And Fidel November 27, 1959 left with the conviction: “With the town of Camagüey we will be able to count always…in the most difficult days and five pesetas to liberate new battles….”

Of the transformations of the Camagüey and their works, dreamt by Fidel, there are tests in these extensive plains where rides in silence in his energetic steed the biggest General Ignacio Agramonte, an entire symbol of gallantry and patriotism.