He added that at that time, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro (1926-2016), in a very intelligent measure, summoned the international press so that they could see what was happening; that summary trials were not being carried out, but rather, that justice was being applied against the most pervasive way that the Cuban oligarchy had practiced on the Cuban people.

It was an important turning point, Barrantes stressed to Prensa Latina. Since then, Cuba has put the new narratives of what the Operation Truth was, it managed to set a different manner to the speech that was held about Cuba at that time.

Cuba emerged as that light of truth, of that free press and generated a new discourse, that the Revolution was on the right path, he stressed.

The Latin American News Agency Prensa Latina celebrated, in this 2024, that event that took place in January 1959, days after the revolutionary triumph led by Fidel Castro.

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