That work, an initiative of the Popular Cultural Movement and the Communist Party of Argentina (PCA) of that city in Buenos Aires province, is the first of 100 murals they aspire to paint under the guidance of artist Isaac Benaprés in various locations across the country in homage to the Centenary of Fidel's birth.

At the headquarters of this century-old organization and its youth wing, the births of two illustrious figures in Cuba's liberation struggle —Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Che Guevara— were also honored, and the work dedicated to Fidel was inaugurated. They also organized a musical segment to raise funds to acquire solar panels promoted by the Estamos con Cuba (We Are with Cuba) campaign.

"We are attending a very important activity today, which is the beginning of a campaign to honor Fidel Castro, commander of the Americas, on the occasion of his centenary," stated Jorge Kreynes, secretary general of the PCA, addressing the gathering that braved a low temperature of 4 degrees Celsius.

The tribute to Fidel, he continued, integrates all the different struggles that have emerged in Latin America and the Caribbean especially, from the apparently smallest demand to the most heroic battles.

After the ceremony inside the PCA headquarters in Quilmes, everyone went out to the street for the unveiling of the pictorial work, whose inauguration was led by David Esteban, a PCA leader and the main organizer of the activity.

Popular artist Isaac Benaprés, a leading figure of the Cultural Movement in Florencio Varela, told Prensa Latina that the idea of 100 murals for Fidel "began to emerge from the grassroots. We started talking with various organizations and friends, until the PCA assumed it as a campaign." It has already begun in Quilmes with the first one, and is being planned in different districts of the Federal Capital.

"We are open, let's say, to making this big. In Florencio Varela we are also preparing one of the murals. For us, Fidel is the father of our Indo-Afro-America, the father of Abya Yala, and we need these references to be on the walls of the neighborhoods." This cultural battle is extremely important, so that when people walk through the territories they find the images of the founders of Our America, of the people who symbolize struggle, resistance, rebellion, who symbolize a better world, Benaprés emphasized.

Specially invited to bless the mural, Chief Nicolás of the Quechua and Aymara indigenous peoples performed the ancestral ritual of these American nations.

"This great gathering has fundamentally to do with reconnecting with our brother, comrade Fidel here in Quilmes, Argentina. He summons us from the political and the spiritual toward a single objective, a single path: that of unity against our common enemy," Chief Nicolás told Prensa Latina.

Consecrating the work, Reverend Pentecostal Bishop Gabriela Guerreros stated that "today, before this mural, we remember a man who also chose a concrete program... From our faith, which believes that the divinity of many names does not bless empires but accompanies resistances, we say: Cuba is not alone."