The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) was the site chosen to hear, in the voice of the only survivor of the expeditions of June 14 and 20, 1959, the details of that patriotic action to liberate the Dominican Republic from the Trujillo dictatorship .
At almost 95 years old, the Commander spoke for almost an hour, standing, firmly and emotionally, about the moments he experienced after his arrest when he disembarked in Constanza, the prison, the torture in the clandestine prison on 40th Street and his subsequent return to Cuba.
Gómez Ochoa has no regrets; 65 years ago we came to defend the right to freedom of the Dominican Republic and we would do it again under the same conditions for our brothers who contributed so much in our wars for independence.
For his part, the author of this valuable book, the Cuban journalist Wilmer Rodríguez, explained that it includes in 15 chapters the history of the Comandante’s family roots, his beginnings in the student struggles, his incorporation into the clandestine struggle in Cuba and then to the guerrilla with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra, in the eastern region,
As a result of several interviews with the commander, detailed to the audience, it shows the reader one of the most important missions assumed by Delio Gómez Ochoa, that of accompanying as an advisor the Dominican, Cuban and other nations revolutionaries, who landed on the anti-Trujillista expeditions of Maimón, Constanza and Estero Hondo, in June 1959.
Rodríguez highlighted that “The Luck to Survive” is almost a century old and stated that it is a book that was born and forged between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In this sense, he thanked the United Left Movement (MIU) and the Cuban historian Eliades Acosta.
For his part, Acosta, prologue of the book, expressed that Delio is the hero of two homelands and affirmed that the Dominican expedition, overthrown militarily, was a moral victory that allowed subsequent events to be concatenated and put an end to the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas. Trujillo.
For his part, Antonio Medina Carcaño, general director of Cooperation and National and International Relations of the UASD, defined the revolutionary as an emblematic figure of Cuban and Dominican history.
He maintained that this act is also in recognition of the dedication and sacrifice of the patriots who were part of the 1959 expeditions.
The activity was attended by the Cuban ambassador to this country, Ángel Arzuaga, officials from the state mission, the director of the library Pedro Mir, directors of the Faculty of Humanities of the UASD, friends of solidarity with Cuba, among other guests.
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