mambises

In you we have the men who will carry on the work of our "mambises" [war of independence soldiers], the followers of those who raised the flag of protest at Baragua, of those who went back to war inspired by Marti and led by Gomez and Maceo in 1895, of those who fell defending the rights of our people, of the band of young men who, the morning of 26 July, assaulted the

15TH ANNIV. OF FAR 1972

Well, if we went a little further back, and looked at our own history, our mambises [Cuban 19th century independence fighters], 10 years struggling against the most powerful army in Europe at that time, because we were the

7TH SESSION OF THE ANPP 1985

Yet thatched, not tile, roofs are the ones which truly reflect the lives of our mambises, our rebels, our country life.

COMMEMORATE CHILDREN'S DAY 1983

It must not be forgotten that the youth who represented Cuba at this contest are the spiritual heirs of our mambises, those of Moncada, of

WELCOMES PAN-AMERICAN GAMES ATHLETES HOME 1971

Our rebel forces had identical principles of patriotic discipline as those that inspired our mambises.

REPORTAGE ON 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF FAR 1971

They will always make splendid use of these weapons in any circumstances. [applause] It is also a historical tradition since the mambises to the rebel guerrilla army of the mountains, that they cannot take our weapons from us.

CASTRO'S BAY OF PIGS ANNIVERSARY SPEECH 1971

Vietnamese recall to us our mambises, likewise fighting alone for 10 years, for almost 30 years for their independence, fighting against an army that was technically well-armed in those days, with machetes, rifles, almost without ammunition.

VISIT OF TRAN BUU KIEM TO CUBA 1969

Cuba's independence, when our first mambises were going to the town of Yara at approximately this same time that a very heavy rain was symbolically their first sacrifice, and since our first mambises at that time had a few shotguns, the rain got the cartridges wet and the shotguns could not be fired that night.

CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG 1968

For when we say people we are talking about revolutionary people; when we talk of people willing to fight and to die, we do not think of the worms, nor the handful of rascal groups which we see. [applause] We are then thinking of those who have the legitimate right to call themselves Cuban, and Cuban people, just as our fellow comrades-in-arms, and the mambises had that right.

CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG 1968

That is how those who persecuted revolutionary fighters were called, those who assassinated students, who used their machetes on wounded mambises who were trying to get well in their poor, destitute, and defenseless hospitals of blood.

CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG 1968