At the height of 1960, Fidel Castro, at a time with very specific conditions of aggression by the United States, retakes and concentrates the motto of our entire history of emancipation on the dilemma of Homeland or Death, the specialist said.

The expert pointed out that currently there are those who distort history and give the phrase a wrong and opportunistic approach as part of the strategy to decontextualize national symbols.

In Ortiz's opinion, in order to understand the birth of this slogan, it is essential to contextualize the event, which goes beyond understanding the national outrage at the terrorist act that a day before caused a hundred deaths during the explosion of La Coubre, in the port of Havana.

We have a genuine Revolution, made by and for Cubans, which is evident in all the social transformations after 1959, measures that will affect economic interests and the great monopoly profits that still existed in the country.

According to the historian, these damaged sectors, in alliance with Washington, would try to destroy us by all means through economic, diplomatic and terrorist attacks.

The French steamLa Coubre brought weapons from Belgium that would increase the island's defenses, but two explosions on the ship during its stay in Havana prevented the discharge of all the ammunition, causing 101 deaths, more than 400 wounded, 34 people missing and 82 children left parentless.

The following day, during the funeral, Fidel Castro exposed the events as a sabotage, years later otherinvestigations would prove the engagement of the CIA in those events.

Carmen del Busto recalled her participation in the funeral and the specific moment in which the Cuban leader pronounced those phrases before hundreds of thousands of people who spontaneously joined the funeral.

The feeling of revolutionary effervescence was strong, we constantly applauded Fidel's speech, indignation was all over the place, she told Prensa Latina.

On this matter, Ortiz explained that the massive reaction to the slogan was due to the higher degree of consciousness, sovereignty, unity and identity that the island's people had reached.

Three months and two days later, during the closing of the Congress of the National Federation of Barbers and Hairdressers in Havana, Fidel Castro joined for the first time to the immortal slogan of Homeland or Death, the answer: We will win!