For Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historian of Havana City and a Cuban with deep roots, it has been in these days the tribute of the people of Las Tunas.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- His physical departure shocks and leaves the commitment to continue on that path of love for Cuba and its history. The book of condolences that was placed in the Mayor General Vicente García provincial museum between August 6 and 7 is a summary, in ink, of the sentiment of an entire people.

On the occasion of the tribute to one of the most lucid intellectuals of the Cuban Revolution and to the man of wonderful oratory, Víctor Marrero, Historian of the city of Las Tunas, praised Leal's passion for Havana and all Cuba, while stressing that his constant correspondence with his counterparts in the nation constitutes a valuable testimony of his work and concern for the country and the preservation of the historical memory.

"I treasure a collection of more than 100 letters that he wrote to me at different times addressing different topics of Cuban history. Imagine it, communicating monthly with the historians of the provinces and of each territory! He was a very industrious man. In his eagerness and his doing always reserved a place for Las Tunas."

For his part, Yelenis Tornet Menéndez, vice-governor of the province, highlighted the links between the promoter of the restoration of Old Havana and local history, and his defense of the personality of Vicente García González, a distinguished mambí.

"Part of the people is here, signing the book, in recognition of that great man, that defender of History. Today we say to him: Goodbye, Eusebio!"

From art also comes the tribute to who represented the most cultured and Cuban of the national culture. Del Sueño a la Poesía (From the Dream to Poetry), the usual meeting hosted by the teacher and concert guitarist Elvira Skourtis remembered who is the voice and heritage of the Greater of the Antilles.

In the last interview he gave to the Mesa Redonda radio and television space, Eusebio Leal Spengler once again left testimony of his giant stature:

"I do not aspire to anything, I do not aspire even to what they call posterity; I do not aspire to anything; I only aspire to have been useful. And I apologize to all those who, throughout life, in the necessary search for what I believed to be my truth, I could have offended; and my own mistakes that I made with the youthful passion in which every man and every people seeks their own paths. I believe that in the end I found it, and that light that I see now, there, in the middle of the darkness of the sunset, is finally the way.”

From Las Tunas, thank you, Eusebio, on behalf of Cuba and all humanity!