More than two weeks have passed, and that overwhelming feeling that has once again appropriated the month of May is still latent. The events at the Saratoga Hotel shocked an entire country, which was right there, where it was most needed at the time.

April 19 will always have great significance in the history of our nation. For the Cuban people and their nascent Revolution, it meant defending the sovereignty of the country, the sacred soil of the homeland, defending their interests, their ideals and their socialist process.