From this monument dedicated to who is the living soul of the country,
representatives of youth and student organizations called today every true
follower of Marti to attend this appointment for Cuba, to raise together
as a love offering to the Apostle, the flame of dignity, freedom and justice.

Carlos Rangel Irola, president of the University Student Federation,
highlighted that the Mrach will constitute unequivocal proof of the
support of the Cuban youth to the Revolution and, especially, the National
Conference of the Communist Party of Cuba, which will start the following
day in Havana.

It will also pay tribute to Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo
Hernandez, Ramon Labanino and Rene Gonzalez, five disciples of the Master,
whose doctrines they have in their hearts, that light that illuminates the
long night of captivity in the “bowels of the monster”, he said.

Again the steps of the University of Havana will be the concentration and
start point of the demonstrators and again, like a sea of fire, the crowd
will march down San Lazaro Street, preceded and escorted by Cuban flags
and the Young Communists League, the FEU and FEEM.

Shortly after nine o'clock Friday night the crowd will start moving after
a speech by President of the FEU and the usual tribute to its founder,
Julio Antonio Mella, a young and passionate Marti follower, at the
Memorial that keeps his ashes at the bottom of University Hill.

They will remember the first March of the Torches, 59 years ago, on the
occasion of the centenary of the birth of José Martí, and which showed its
strength and courage of those who would attack just six months later the
Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Garrisons.
Indeed, in front of the lone star banner that accompanied Raul Castro,
then a student at the University of Havana, in this manifestation, were
announced the dissimilar actions conceived as a tribute to the new
generations to the Master.

These include the parades, camping, climbing to the highest point of Cuban
geography, contests, chat rooms, clubs, parties and talks, as well as
vigils the night of 27 January in parks and squares that are named after
the Hero of Two Rivers.

To all this they will add walks, workshops, exhibitions, meetings, visits
to historical sites, cultural and community projects.