Lucha Y Sacrificio
Cultura Profética
Struggle and Sacrifice
Twenty-four, what a great day
Of that glorious September
At dawn the martyr
Feels liberating voice
The cry comes overwhelming
For freedom for the homeland
Venancio with the woodcutter,
The future rises
The saint shed his blood
For the heavenly homeland
He bled in the cucumber fields
For the earthly homeland
In cucumber, the earthly
And the celestial merge,
Sanctifying the struggle
Of God, homeland, and freedom
Lares means struggle,
The cucumber martyrdom
God and homeland require us
Faith, valor, and sacrifice
From Diego, Blanca, and Albizu
For the blood of the cucumber
For the freedom of the tree
Forged with sacrifice
If your struggle is born in Lares
And consecrated in cucumber
For the freedom of the tree
Forged with sacrifice
If your struggle is born in Lares
And consecrated in cucumber
Your blood will be of a martyr
And your valor ignited
From here will come the proclamation
The nation will emerge,
Shining in the new dawn
Glorious in its freedom
