Of supposed weak nature...

By: Moraima Borges Mariscal / Television Camagüey

Vilma Espín and Celia Sánchez. For my great surprise, I found their pictures in a mural of the University of East: young, slender and beautiful; dressed sportswoman`s uniform. From then on, with the ball, she had already learned how to challenge to her contrary. The print was also in Santiago's streets. Vilma had been coordinator of the movement July 26 in the city where, since little, the Sierra looked like omening her most valiant steps.

She was born there in the Santiago Rebel April of the year 7, 1930, in the house that served from general barracks to the lift of Santiago of Cuba, in the eve of the landing of the Granma Yacht; and of the one that came out to conquer the stature and the heroine's dimensions, or the emancipated woman, or the wife, or the partner, the mother or grandmother of a family crowned by the example…

Vilma got dressed of Cuba and her voice was each Cuban; she exercised the protagonism, the symbol, and drove us in the one on the way to finding, with the Revolution, the possibility of a space, a mission, a position…Her presence in the Federation of Cuban Women made that of flower we were gardens, and of decorations we became tools and that, of supposed weak nature, we changed to strong and indispensable.

Today, in the Olympus of the Heroes, Vilma completes her 80`s. The history doesn't stop for who continue being essence and life in the zeal of believing possible the dreams of the immortality and the impront.