While the blood of workers and soldiers unloading the French steamer La Coubre on March 4, 1960 was still fresh, the world heard for the first time the oath of Fatherland or Death!, from the mouth of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
This was said 62 years ago at the funeral of a hundred dead by the two explosions caused on the French ship by a detonator placed under one of the ammunition boxes by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, to try prevent arms and ammunition from reaching their destination to defend the Revolution.
Faced with the attempt to terrorize the Cuban people so that they would desist from the revolutionary path, Fidel's response at the funeral of the victims was to resist and fight until the last drop of blood, which was summarized from that day and forever. in the cry of Fatherland or Death!
Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara and other revolutionary leaders rushed to the scene of the explosion from different parts of the city, and it was precisely at the burial of the victims of that terrorist crime that photographer Alberto Díaz "Korda" captured one of the iconic images of world photography. Guevara's face crossed his lens and that day the image of the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter that travels the entire world was born.
Around 3:10 p.m. that Friday, a tremendous explosion rocked Havana and a black-rimmed mushroom rose over the port area on the west side of the bay, where a ship bringing 31 tons of grenades and 44 tons of ammunition. With the gigantic mushroom of smoke came chunks of metal, wood and shrapnel fragments that rained down on the city within a radius of 500 meters.
https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2022-03-04/vigente-un-juramento-de-62-anos-patria-o-muerte
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