Throughout his fruitful life he was a tireless fighter for national independence, the sovereignty of the country and the cause of socialism. On one occasion when summarizing the meaning he attributed to his own existence, he stated: "...it has been a battlefield, I have never stopped fighting and never, not even in the most adverse circumstances, have I lost faith in the future. That has been my shield and my flag."

#S1Blas Roca

He was born on July 24, 1908 in the Manzanillo area in the bosom of a proletarian family. He was a prestigious Cuban partisan leader. In 1938, in correspondence with an international situation, the Communist Party of Cuba was legalized, and his work as a member inserted his name in the national political events. He was among the communist delegates who participated in the Constituent Assembly and who drafted and approved the 1940 Constitution. He actively participated in the process of consolidation of the Revolution and in the construction of the socialist society. Between 1962 and 1965 he edited the newspaper Hoy. In October 1965 he was elected member of the Central Committee of the Party, and of its Secretariat and in 1975 at the first congress of the Party he was elected member of the Political Bureau. The following year, when the National Assembly of People's Power was constituted, he was elected President of the highest governing body of the country. He died in Havana on April 25, 1987.