At 5:00 a.m. the city of Santiago de Cuba breaks its stillness. The poem “La mañana de la Santa Ana” (The morning of Santa Ana) makes the skin crawl, resounding among the bullet traces of the Moncada, in this open-air stage.
The presidency is already in place: reenacting that Santa Ana morning, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Assembly President Esteban Lazo Hernández and Commander Ramiro Valdés Menéndez are some of the faces in the front row.
Seven decades later, we return to the same place. The National Rebellion Day ceremony begins in Santiago de Cuba.
A video mapping recalls the events and, one by one, on the Moncada, the faces of the martyrs of the heroic deed appear.
Provincial act held in Caimanera for assault on the Moncada barracks
The Guantanamo municipality of Caimanera, separated by only millimeters from the illegal Yankee Naval Base, was the provincial headquarters of the act for the 70th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, on July 26, 1953.
During the political-cultural ceremony, performed by professional artists and local amateur artists -such as the Génesis dance group, soloists Railin Ramírez, Eldrys Toirac, and the Municipal Concert Band, outstanding personalities, institutions and organizations were recognized.
Likewise, Leandro Martínez Bombalé, First Secretary of the Young Communists League (UJC) in that coastal territory, highlighted the role of the new generations as continuators of the Revolution who are also committed to a better world, consolidating the economic and social tasks for well-being of all.
