The son of Cuba’s “payer of promises” dies

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Several independent media outlets in Cuba and the official Alma Mater magazine reported this Saturday on the death of Omar Quintero’s son, in months past as “the payer of promises”.

“Today we learned of the death of Lázaro, son of Omar, the payer of promises. Alma Mater joins the sadness for the loss of the boy”, he said. The official Cuban publication.

Meanwhile, the independent media outlet El Toque and the website Directory Cubano also echoed the news and remembered that Lázaro died during his death. at the age of 36 due to the cancer he suffered from.

The Cubans followed through social networks and live the walk that he made. Omar in February and March from Havana to the El Cobre sanctuary in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba -about 900 kilometers- to ask the Virgin of Charity for the health of his son.

Upon returning to his home in the popular neighborhood of Los Pocitos, in the Havana municipality of Marianao, this 56-year-old man told him what he had been up to. to Efe his experience in the journey that began & oacute; “solito” and from the middle of the way he turned around. viral.

His son Lázaro, a young worker in the health sector, was diagnosed with viral infection. 11 years ago he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that forms in the lymphatic system. 

The disease had affected his lungs and the doctors estimated that he had only a few months to live.

That was the moment when Omar “to God and to the Virgin of Charity that if they saved him he would go to El Cobre on foot”, in reference to the well-known sanctuary and that implied cross almost the entire island of Cuba.