This seventeenth of May the municipality of Calixto García in Holguín became different, because the celebration of the day of the Cuban peasant had an additional motivation, the unanimous demand of the cessation of the commercial and financial economic blockade of the United States imposed on Cuba more than 55 years ago .
They were the voices of the peasants, of the students, of the young people, who in the name of the people rose up, and rejected that cruel policy that suffocates and oppresses and that has failed in its pretensions to end the Cuban Revolution.
Jagüeyes was the stage, from there the firmness of the people was demonstrated, and it was made clear that we will never renounce unity and the principles we defend. It was also recalled that May 17, 1959, date in which the people were told that the land belongs to those who work it, a right that stamps the first Law of Agrarian Reform.
There was also learned that between April 2016 and May 2017, the monetary impact caused by the blockade to the agricultural sector amounts to more than 250 million dollars, of which 88% is the income lost from the exports that could be made to the territory of the United States.
In the claim of the peasants it was also mentioned that products such as tobacco, fruits, pulps, concentrated juices, and others could be marketed in the US markets, with which both countries would benefit, however, the economic sanctions that the government of that country unjustly applies to Cuba, they prevent it.
But the day also had a special preamble, the planting of five timber trees in areas of Leonor Pérez Elementary School to remember the most universal of all Cubans José Martí and as a symbol of the solidarity of the people of Cuba with the progressive governments of the region.
The day against the blockade held in Jagüeyes on May 17 confirmed once again that our people will continue to denounce the cruel and unjust policy carried out against our country, and that precisely 59 years after that historic event, the date on which the day of the Cuban peasantry, there are thousands of families that demonstrate their attachment to the Revolution and the commitment to continue cultivating the land and produce food because that means fulfilling Fidel's legacy.
