On his X profile, the president highlighted the nobility and industriousness of the people of Sancti Spiritus.

Together with Raúl and other heroes from the Centennial Generation, we experienced the happiest dawn of the year here. Congratulations #Cuba, Díaz-Canel wrote in his message.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, and President Díaz-Canel chaired the main event on National Rebelliousness Day in Sancti Spíritus on Friday.

In front of some 5,000 local residents, representing all Cubans, Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa expressed the country’s will to face economic challenges and promote its independent development.

In his speech, he reaffirmed the will to defend the Cuban Revolution in the face of US aggressiveness.

At the Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia Revolution Square, the people of Sancti Spíritus celebrated the 71st anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons, which paved the way for the insurrectional fight against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959).

Also present are a delegation from Vietnam, and members of the José Martí European Brigade of Volunteer Work and Solidarity with Cuba, and the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade, from Puerto Rico, as well as the Venceremos Brigade, from the United States.

There is also a delegation of Cuban-Americans from the José Martí Cultural Society, an Afro-American group of solidarity with Cuba, and foreign students who recently graduated from the University of Medical Sciences in Sancti Spíritus.

This is the third time that the main event for the Moncada anniversary is commemorated in Sancti Spíritus, the homeland of Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia, hero of all three independence wars and a personal friend of José Martí.

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