Today is January 11th of 2024. Back on January 11th of 1959 at age 59 Celia Sanchez died because of lung cancer. She is the greatest heroine of the Cuban Revolution and, beyond that, many consider her the greatest and most important overall person in the Cuban Revolution. The photo directly above, for example, historically shows the day Fidel Castro joined Celia Sanchez's already viable Cuban Revolution in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains in southeast Cuba...and this was the day she gave him his revolutionary rifle. Yes, revolutionary insiders -- including Fidel Castro -- have believed that Celia Sanchez was the most important rebel during the Revolution and during Revolutionary Cuba starting on January 1st of 1959 until she died on January 11th of 1980. A doctor's daughter and a passionate fighter for Cuban children, Celia Sanchez started and ended the fight that overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship...and she did it as a guerrilla fighter, a decision-maker, and as the top recruiter of rebels and supplies that were vital to the outcome of the Cuban Revolution.
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1 of 1959, the tireless Celia Sanchez was the leader who laid down the parameters for the post-Batista rule in Cuba...and she was always supported 100% by Fidel Castro. Thus her decisions were unchallenged. The historic photo above reveals that, day or night in Revolutionary Cuba, it was Celia Sanchez that devised and documented the revolutionary decisions, and thus Fidel Castro could relax in his rocking chair while she worked tirelessly on crafting the rules that he would later support totally. Therefore, it is historic quotations by Celia Sanchez that best define the Cuban Revolution, such as: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being cowards and idiots."
The definitive Celia Sanchez quotation.
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