“I was sure I was going to be here again in Cuba, with the aviation, “said the Hero of the Cuban Republic Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five antiterrorist fighters that was held in the United States (US) for 16 years, who together with Rene Gonzalez, another of the Cuban Five, received the Distinction Jose Maria Perez, a decoration granted by the National Union of Transport and Ports in the celebration of the Aviation Workers’ Day.
Both antiterrorist fighters were also granted the ID of workers of the aviation where they worked for several years before they left to fulfil their missions of monitoring terrorist groups, based in the south of Florida, US to get information of their plans against Cuba.
Tony dialogued with moved words with those who participated in the activity held at Captain Fernando Alvarez Square at the air terminal in Havana where he evoked his job in Cubana Aviation. In that period, he said, the job carried out helped us to fulfill other missions that needed rigor and discipline in the duty.
“There are no words to describe this return,” he said. Today, better than ever before, the Revolution calls us to fulfill our duty and we are convinced that you will also know how to do it as usual in difficult moments.
At the beginning of the activity, Ricardo Santillan, vice president of Cubana Aviation (Cacsa), stressed that in 2014 the national and international aircrafts’ movements by the airports helped move more than 7 million passengers that represented the 103 percent of the fulfilment and a growth of the 5 percent.
He added that during these years, important investments have been carried out in the facilities of the airports and in the areas of air navigation, the most recent one in the aircrafts’ fleet. For the ones who work in this branch “the only thing that cannot change is the love we do our job“.
