The liberation of the Cuban people was determined by a whole series of factors that contributed to the dismissal of the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Winds of proletarian ideals in support of the suffering classes, which raged in the fields of Cuba in the 50s. Stories of peoples who, through the class struggle, supplanted dictators who at the time were considered inalienable to power. And when we talk about peoples, we make obligatory reference to all those men who allowed an enterprise that went down in history as the most important and glorious revolutionary attempt of the 900 '.
We know Fidel Castro (recently deceased). Great political personality, with a charisma as thick as his beard; a true commander, who instilled courage in his supporters, because he scrutinized the looming of every Cuban sunset with a solving plan in his pocket that certified safety. We know Commander Che Guevara, revolutionary hero and mythology of generations with revolution in mind; that who knows what this "revolution", a desire for subversion, will ever have been in their imaginations; a stain remover for the bourgeois spirit. But perhaps not everyone knows that every man has to learn from his neighbor. And even an irreducible man like Che Guevara had to learn from someone else, so that he could become the man he was. Did you ever think, for example, that it was an Italian who taught him to hold up the rifle during the guerrillas? This is the story of Gino Donè Paro.
Gino Donè Paro, Italian Revolutionary in Cuba
Gino was never a man who knew rest. Gino was a true revolutionary Italian; because he felt the call of that justice that knows no peoples or flags. In fact, he was not only a great Italian partisan, recognized and praised by foreign weapon personalities; but he was equally a Cuban guerrilla and revolutionary.
He took part in the Granma expedition, after a series of trips around Europe, then to Canada and finally to Cuba. And it was there that he met Che ': on the Cuban beaches of Las Colorados, where the revolution began. . During his training period, Gino saw in the Argentine Commander a good doctor, but a mediocre soldier. He therefore taught him to aim and fire and some guerrilla techniques resulting from his experiences in Italy.
They remained great friends for a long time, helping each other. Then the roads parted and the two never saw each other again.
'El Italiano', as he was called among the Cuban comrades in arms, a few months after the journey of the Granma, will expatriate. But later an ambassadorial permit will be granted to visit his comrades in the fight.
When he returned home, he was the subject of several services journalistic; and he was contacted to give several interviews to the most important newspapers in the country. The story of the revolutionary Gino Donè Paro fascinates all those nostalgic men who allow themselves the luxury of letting themselves be lulled by that feeling of romanticism that still makes possible the idea that a revolution can still exist. Even now. Even now that there is so much mumbling about collapsed ideals.
