El Morrillo, where Cuba lost two of its youths

Antonio Guiteras and Carlos Aponte were assassinated near the Spanish fort El Morrillo, on May 8, 1935.
According to historians, Guiteras was a charismatic and noble young man who did not tolerate injustice, his friend, the Venezuelan Carlos Aponte, was equally insurgent in spirit.
In a time as convulsive and tyrannical as the one they lived in, the style, detachment and libertarian desire of revolutionaries like Guiteras, did not suit the elites of the moment.
Tony´s rebellious nature led him to found the Joven Cuba organization, and to define the armed struggle as a strategy to confront the government.
Investigators say that part of his fighting project was to go to Mexico to prepare an armed confrontation from there, and then he trusted in an old acquaintance from Matanzas who promised him all the necessary support. That person, whom he considered trustworthy, betrayed Guiteras and led Batista´s troops to the old and abandoned fort where he, along with his friend Carlos Aponte and some of his companions from Joven Cuba, were preparing to leave the country.
On the morning of May 8, 1935, the two revolutionaries fell in unequal combat against the forces of tyranny.
Nowadays an obelisk is found in the approximate place where Antonio Guiteras and Carlos Aponte died 86 years ago, it eternalizes the courage and love with which one day these two young people decided to defend the country at the cost of their lives.

Traducción:Gabriela Bringas Hernández