“In his official statement, the foreign minister highlighted the expressions of affection and support for the revolutionary process, which triumphed on the island in January 1959, expressed this July 26 by leaders of several governments, organizations, personalities, and friends of Cuba.
Messages of congratulations from different regions of the world were also sent to the Cuban people due to the celebration of the National Rebellion Day commemorated the day before.
The Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, together with the vice-president of that Central American country, Rosario Murillo, and other leaders of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), highlighted the importance of the historic event.
According to a statement issued by the regional integration bloc, “the rebelliousness of the Cuban people set the prairie of freedom on fire, by the hand of Fidel Castro to change history, with José Martí as the intellectual author of that feat”.
From Vietnam, Russia, China, Hungary, and Argentina came messages of recognition to the island from political leaders, social movements, and groups of solidarity with the causes of the Antillean island.
The commemorative act for the anniversary that remembers the assault on the military fortresses Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Granma), and Moncada, (Santiago de Cuba), both in eastern Cuba, took place The day before, in the central province of Santi Espíritus.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution Raúl Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel led the gathering of some five thousand people from Sancti Spiritus in the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia.
Present at the commemorative rally were: a delegation from Vietnam, members of the European José Martí Brigade for 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.
Also in attendance were a delegation of Cuban-Americans from the José Martí Cultural Society, an Afro-American group in solidarity with the island, and foreign students recently graduated from the University of Medical Sciences of this city.
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