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Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Presents Book at the Havana Fair

CUBA, February 18, 2010. Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia presented on Thursday at Havana’s International Book Fair the volume Encuentro con la Verdad, in which he narrates passages of the revolutionary struggle at the Sierra Maestra Mountains. My main motivation to write this book, explained Garcia, was to share with the people and especially with youngsters the events of this stage of combat against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.

Garcia, the first farmer who joined the Rebel Army after the landing of the Granma yacht, underlined that when he spoke with Commander in Chief Fidel Castro for the first time, the leader’s confidence and personality convinced him that the struggle was the right path to follow.

These testimonies are not intended to make readers believe that I saved the Revolution. On the contrary, it saved me, concluded the Hero of the Republic of Cuba and member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and of the Council of State.

On the book’s prologue, Cuban President Raul Castro points out that, with accurate language, free of glitter, details of the National Liberation Struggle are narrated, some of them unpublished.

Attending the presentation were, among others, Major Generals Jose Carrillo, head of the Political Department of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and member of the Central Committee of the PCC, Ermio Hernandez and Enrique Luson, and Brigadier General Delsa Esther Puebla.

Also launched on Thursday at the Nicolas Guillen Hall of the Morro-Cabaña historical and military complex was the book La victoria de los caídos, by Rebel Army Commander Delio Gómez Ochoa. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

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