Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today highlighted the importance of singing the Bayamo Anthem, for the first time, 155 years ago, which emerged during the battle for independence from Spain and became the National Anthem.

Through the social network X, the head of state recalled a thought from the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in which he said that the interpretation of the national anthem, on October 20, 1868, coincided with the act of arms with which the Revolution achieved the first and most important military victory over Spanish colonialism.

The capitulation of Bayamo and the victorious entry into the city of the troops of the patriot Carlos Manuel de Céspedes represents the culmination of the act of rebellion that began on October 10 in the sugar cane mill “La Demajagua”, marking a turning point in the history of the country, giving birth to the Cuban nation, Fidel Castro reflected in 2004.

To commemorate the event, Cuba celebrates National Culture Day, as part of a program that began on October 10, which this year will be symbolically extended until October 28, the date of the 75th anniversary of the National Ballet of Cuba.

The Bayamo Hymn, the National Anthem of Cuba, was composed by the revolutionary and poet Pedro Felipe Figueredo y Cisneros (1818-1870), better known as Perucho Figueredo. The hymn urges us to fight for freedom as the supreme goal to be achieved even by paying the price of life.