BANCOI VISITS SANTIAGO DE CUBA

By: Wendy Luna Fierro, Communication and Marketing Manager, Banco de Inversiones S.A.

Memorable is simply the word that describes the experience lived by the vanguard workers and selected cadres of Banco de Inversiones S.A., last Tuesday, April 3rd. With the warmth of its streets and its people and thanks to the collaboration of a Banco Popular de Ahorro, Santiago de Cuba received as its own the group that arrived from Havana, desiring to know better the so-called Hero City and join the more of one million visitors who have paid tribute to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, where his eternal siege nests.

The Santa Ifigenia cemetery received its visitors, who witnessed the ceremony of the change of the Honor Guard and offered flowers to the Leader of the Cuban Revolution, before the impressive granite rock that protects the urn with its ashes. In the year of the Anniversaries 165 of the birth of José Martí, 150 of the War of Independence and 140 of the Baraguá Protest, the opportunity was also favorable to visit the remains of the National Hero, the Father of the Homeland Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and Mariana Grajales mother of Antonio Maceo, in the necropolis that cradles many other heroes of the wars of independence and clandestinity.

Gratifying was also the guided tour of the old Cuartel Moncada, which went down in history after the assault by a group of young people led by Fidel and which is currently the 26th of July School City, a perfect symbiosis between past and future among whose walls still cracked by the impact of the bullets received in 1953 is formed today the future generations of Cubans. The experience in the so-called Capital of the Caribbean was complemented by a guided tour of the city and its surroundings, with stops at El Cobre and the Cathedral of Santiago, among other emblematic places for their history and traditions.

The complicity of the Provincial Directorate of Banco Popular de Ahorro in Santiago de Cuba was crucial in this experience and is a worthy example of collaboration between entities of the National Banking System. The ups and downs of emotions lived in such a short period of time, comparable to the famous Santiago hills, was the gratification of a group that will take the eastern province forever in their mind and heart.

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