On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Máximo Gómez‘s presence in Camagüey as military leader, researcher Kezia Henry focused on exposing illustrations of his intimate and family life
Camagüey, Cuba, Dec 14th.- With a panel dedicated to the presence of Máximo Gómez in Camagüey, the Read the History day began in the province, which will run until the next day 16.
At the La Comarca Literary Café, historians Ángel Avelino Fernández Espert, Emilio Fonseca Amador and Kezia Henry Knight shared visions of various moments in which the leadership of the Generalissimo was appreciated in the old Port-au-Prince.
Fernández Espert spoke about this aspect by highlighting that from a military point of view he was unsurpassed and contributed to the war with actions such as the first charge with the machete, in addition to being the only General of the Liberation Army in the East that the Spanish could not displace from their territory.
«He was the man who most insisted on giving the conflict a national scope; in April 1872 he proposed a second plan to carry out the invasion of the West that was not carried out due to disagreements between Gómez and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes«, he said.
And he added that upon taking charge of the «disciplined forces of Agramonte» in Camagüey, he carried out important battles such as the attack on Nuevitas and Santa Cruz del Sur, the combats of La Sacra, El Naranjo, Las Guásimas and Palo Seco, one of the most notorious of the entire independence feat.
For his part, Fonseca Amador stated that in these lands he demonstrated his tactical and strategic ability to the point of appearing like a soldier thirsty for promotion and thus demonstrating that he was a man the troops could trust.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Máximo Gómez‘s presence in Camagüey as a military leader, researcher Kezia Henry focused on exposing illustrations of his intimate and family life.
In the book The Family of Máximo Gómez, by Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga, passages of the Generalissimo’s relationship with his wife Bernarda Toro Pelegrín and children, some of them born on camagueyan soil, are recounted, and how he forged them in love for the Homeland and values such as decorum and dignity.
As part of the Reading History event on its first date of activities, the writer Jorge Santos Caballero presented the text G-2 in the eye of the hurricane, by Manuel Hevia Frasquieri and Pedro Etcheverry Vázquez.
Text and photo: Diosmel Galano Oliver/Radio Camagüey