Portal:Cuba/Featured quote/Day 10

“ Let's go, ardent prophet of the dawn, along remote and unmarked paths, to liberate the green caiman you so love... ”

Opening lines of Che Guevara's Canto to Fidel. A poem Guevara presented to Fidel Castro on board the Granma yacht, shortly before arriving in Cuba to foment the Cuban Revolution. The green caiman was a metaphor for the reptilian shaped island of Cuba.