Camilo, the humanity of his greatness

It is natural that every human being mythifies his heroes. The dimensions of their thought, their integrity, their courage and their boundless dedication to the ideals that led them to expose their lives are for us reason to venerate them with this respectful and grateful look, to consider them as beings beyond of the space-time condition to which material existence limits us.

However, it is part of the historical health of peoples who conceive heroes and martyrs, of their passage into existence and the reasons for which they surrender, in the latent human context in any person, as spontaneous and simple as that can appear, or really be. .

Camilo Cienfuegos, Granma Expeditionary; inseparable and faithful to Fidel; seasoned, disciplined, of noble and affable character, given to the joke at the opportune moment; The man with the distilled smile of immense cubanity and boundless generosity was, by the grandeur to which we remember him, a human being like one of us.

This young son of Spanish immigrant father and mother was born and raised playing ball, running, practicing kite flying and studying with the desire to learn, in Lawton's Havana neighborhood. . At the age of 16, Cuba's injustices of the time led to the political struggle against pseudo-republican theft. Shortly after, he went to Mexico, where he met Fidel, Raúl, Che and all the young people with whom he shared the fight.

We know his story. moreover, we venerate him, and this shows us how among us, even among those whose names we do not know, there is a Camilo who works in a workshop or in an agricultural cooperative; He is a doctor in our hospitals and in missions in other cities and proudly wears the uniform of a homeland soldier.

That's why Camilo is everywhere and many more. There is enough reason for one of our revolutionary soldiers, who creates institutions, to bear the honorable name of the Camilo Cienfuegos Military School. There, our "camilitos" are formed and each of them becomes a replica of the "Señor de la Vanguardia", as we must remember.

Camilo manifests every day in the simplicity of our people; as an athlete, a young man adept of jokes, man or woman, loves, works and is defeated and that, vis-à-vis the homeland, he tirelessly engages in a fight against the enemy who tries to attack him; because these young people love the country as a mother is loved; as at the time, Camilo did it in the Granma, Sierra Maestra and in front of Column 2 "Antonio Maceo" during the invasion from east to west.

Young people and those who are not so young because of their age; the same men as women; with a mobile phone on your belt or in front of a computer, open new perspectives to your knowledge; on a dance floor; in the classroom, furrow, workshop, school field, hospitals, art work and trench. In this simple humanity of everyday life, the man with the thousand anecdotes survives and multiplies every day.

Thus, he will always follow us, accompanying us in the most beautiful way to perpetuate it in the memory and the efforts of each minute. Camilo is always with us, always immortal. This is how he accompanies us in the humanity of his greatness.