Cuba inaugurates this Thursday a center to preserve the work and thought of Fidel Castro, as part of the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of his death.
"In #Fidel’s office in the Palace of the Revolution, everything is as he left it on his last day there. I try to imagine it in the midst of the tough battles of so many challenging years. It inspires me, it excites me. And I keep fighting"President Miguel Díaz-Canel said in a message on Twitter.
The Fidel Castro Ruz Center opens on this day "commemorating the fifth anniversary of the physical disappearance of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution"announced the official newspaper Granma.
Castro (1926-2016) led the revolution against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, which triumphed in 1959 to establish a socialist regime that still lasts, under the presidency of Díaz-Canel.
He fell ill in 2006, handing over power to his brother Raúl, currently retired at the age of 90, and died on November 25, 2016, after a 10-year convalescence.
The commemorative acts have been held since Wednesday night, when, on the steps of the University of Havana, and led by Díaz Canel, hundreds of students gathered under heavy rain to remember with music, dance and words to the "Commander".
The "red scarves", young government officials grouped in the Our America Project, called for a march on Thursday afternoon in honor of Fidel Castro.
The march will leave the Parque del Quijote and will go to the Malecón, the same route that the opposition leader Yunior García tried to do on the 14th, dressed in white and with a rose. That solitary demonstration was prevented by the police who surrounded his house before he could leave.
The "red scarves" They ask to wear that garment that identifies them, over white shirts and a flower.
They announced that they will launch into the water a replica of the Granma yacht, which brought Castro and his followers to Cuba in 1956. The work was made by the well-known artist Alexis Leyva, known as "Kacho".
A month after his death, the Cuban Parliament approved Law 123 that prohibits using the name of Fidel Castro "to name institutions, squares, parks, avenues, streets and other public places, as well as in any type of decoration, recognition or honorary title"
You can not either "use your figure to erect monuments, busts, statues, commemorative plaques, and other similar forms of homage".
Fulfilling Fidel’s wish, in Cuba there are no statues, no streets or parks in his honor, although his image is present in the country in multiple ways.
As the only exception, the regulations establish, it is "the use of his name to name an institution, which according to the law, is constituted for the study and dissemination of his thought and work".
With strong charisma, Castro’s leadership was criticized by his opponents, who accused him of cult of personality.
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