CAMAGÜEY.- From every angle of the life of Faure Chomón Mediavilla, he was a whole man. He proved it in Camagüey, the city that took him in like a son and knew about his kindness, always in favor of the poor, and of his student fights that forged him as a revolutionary man.
He was not afraid of those who spread terror. About it there are many anecdotes to tell and history will take care of narrating them in their full dimension. His brotherhood with José Antonio Echeverría are well known, as well as his courage when, with other young men, he assaulted the Presidential Palace.
He did not give in a step in the fight to see Cuba free, he traveled to exile after a bitter chase of the repressive corps to seize him, he gathered weapons and organized 16 expeditionary men that would come to reinforce the fights of the Rebel Army in the central region of the country.
Nuevitas was the pick up point for the landing on that February 8th 1958 on Santa Rita beach. In spite of set backs in the course of the ships, they landed and mocked the intelligence of Batista’s government.
With the voluminous stash of weapons, Faure and his men came from Nuevitas to Camagüey city. The main garrison was set on top of Casablanca theater, house provided by Armando Garrido’s father, colleague of his who provided inestimable aid from exile, for the success of this insurrectionist operation.
He was a man that knew how to unite, since in other way he would not have secured five houses to shelter his men for several hours before the departure to create the guerrilla in the Escambray Mountains, force of the Revolutionary Directory March 13 that would subordinate to the Che’s Column. This action was also executed in the most strict discretion, a quality that made him point out as a strategist.
Among his long history as a revolutionary man, his important responsibilities as Minister of Transportation and Communications, as a diplomat, as a party executive, among others, in Camagüey he will be remembered, specially, as the disciplined man that punctually went to the work sessions of the Municipal Assembly of the People’s Power, invested in authority, but with an extraordinary modesty and a critical sense of the processes and phenomena.
- Translated by Elianna Díaz Mendieta
