The visit to Cuba of Vietnam’s National Assembly (Parliament) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue gives a unique character to this celebration, the diplomat said, during a simple ceremony held at the headquarters of the Cuban State Mission in Hanoi to commemorate the date.

Hernandez pointed out that Dinh Hue would be the first foreign leader to address the newly elected National People’s Power Assembly of Cuba, whose constituent session takes place this Wednesday, a unique honor that proves the existing brotherly relations between the two countries, he said.

Representatives of the Vietnamese Students Club Graduates in Cuba, alongside members of Cuba’s State Mission, recalled with films the events that occurred on April 15-19, 1961, which led to the first defeat of US imperialism in Latin America.

The anticipated accusation of aggression made by the then Cuban Foreign Minister Raúl Roa in San José, Costa Rica, in August 1960, at the OAS Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers, and the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution, were also recalled.

Military Attaché Román Jiménez reminded the historic words of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro on the transcendence of the victory achieved by the Cuban people and its young Revolution on the sands of Playa Girón.

The closure of this commemorating act ended with the lecture of the verses “La sangre numerosa” (The Numerous Blood) written by national poet Nicolás Guillén and devoted to young militiaman, Eduardo García Delgado, who, before dying on April 15, 1961, wrote the name of Fidel, with his own blood.

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