Frank País García, of Santiago and Cienfuegos, of Cuba

In the afternoon of July 30, 1957, he entered the history and heart of Cubans, in the narrow geography of the central corner of San Germán, Callejón del Muro, Frank País, 23 years old . Garcia, shot 22 shots in the back, and another behind his ear

Next to him, his partner Raul Pujols was also killed, an example of loyalty to the cause and the company of the boss and friend. This is the hatred of the henchmen of the tyranny of Batista who ravaged the brave and clever conspirator who kept them in check in the province of Oriente and all over the island, as a coordinator of the Movement of 26 July in this region of the country. Head of national action of the organization. Frank was a very wanted prisoner and needed for his capture of the mobilization of the army, the police and the navy to search house by house and block by block in Santiago de Cuba to be able to find and kill the extraordinary fighter solid bulwark of the revolutionary struggle. the plain and in the Sierra, described by Fidel as "the most valuable and useful, the most extraordinary of our fighters."

Vilma Espín, one of his closest and most valuable collaborators of Frank remembers "his intelligence, nobility, ethical values, sensitivity and human wealth, exceptional leadership conditions, patriotic fervor and intrepidity, qualities of a military leader and mbad leader ". He was a man of action and thought. He wrote verses, he loved clbadical music, he played the piano, he was an extraordinary, sublime teacher. Ernesto Che Guevara recalls: "He impressed from the very first interview, his eyes showed that the man had faith in a cause.Today, he calls himself" the unforgettable Frank País ", and for me, who only saw him once, I find him.Frank is one of so many comrades whose life fulfilled would have been dedicated to the socialist revolution, is part of the hard price paid by people for their freedom. "

The Cienfuegueros owe to Frank the role that he played in the organization that led to the events of the uprising of 5 September in Cienfuegos, and sent his best man, Julio Camacho Aguilera, to badist and then direct this action, he even handed over to Camacho the Dodge car that he used, so that he could come to The Villas to lead to well the mission

When Frank fell, it was known that it was very difficult to replace him, and the mission fell to the commander "Daniel", René Ramos Latour, the great fighter who continued to Frank in his responsibility of before July 26 Movement in the plain. Performed his role. He was very close to Frank, and Haydee Santamaría wrote that "Frank himself would have chosen it.These two characters come together in one."

He survived exactly one year, because on July 30, 1958 Ramos Latour fell in the fight of El Jobal, Sierra Maestra, hit by a howitzer.

Martí He taught "Respect for heroes helps the birth of new heroes". That's why we remember together Frank and Daniel, all who fell for the Homeland, when they commemorate the Day of the Martyrs of the Revolution on July 30th. It's a day to meditate on successes and mistakes and inefficiencies, in what we have advanced, in what we have advanced, in how we prevent the corrupt and incompetent from plugging the Revolution and tarnish his work. This is the mandate of the dead for the homeland!