According to a report accessed by Prensa Latina, the climbing was also dedicated to the upcoming centenary of the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and served as another opportunity to reaffirm opposition to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed on the island by the United States.

The initiative brought together around thirty representatives from the Bulgaria-Cuba Friendship Association, the September 23rd Youth Movement, and the Bulgarian Young Communists organization, with the support of the Radetsky Bureau, a group specializing in mountain climbs.

The ascent remembered the one undertaken by Fidel Castro in 1972 during his first official visit to Bulgaria; participants carried a photograph of the Cuban revolutionary taken at that summit—located 2,290 meters above sea level—alongside the flags of Cuba and Bulgaria.

At Aleko rest station, Atanas Mrachkov—a worker at the facility who witnessed that earlier visit—remembered the Commander-in-Chief’s climbing and highlighted the physical stamina he showed.

Participants included, among others, the president of the Bulgaria-Cuba Friendship Association, Valentina Boyadzheva; the president of the September 23rd Movement, Stefan Petrov; the leader of the Bulgarian Young Communists, Plamen Milenkov; and activists Kadrinka Kadrinova and Marin Mirchev.

Cuba’s ambassador to Bulgaria, Marieta Garcia Jordan, expressed her gratitude for the initiative, stating that it represents a new expression of the Bulgarian people’s solidarity with Cuba and their rejection of the intensified U.S. blockade.

As part of the commemorations marking July 26, a solidarity action also took place in Germany, where a group of activists climbed the Zugspitze—the country’s highest mountain—to express their support for the Cuban people.

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