At the confluence of 23rd and 12th Streets in the residential area of Vedado, hundreds of people in the capital commemorated the events of that day in 1961, which defined the path in the construction of a social process based on humanism and equity.

This proclamation took place during the funeral of the victims of the U.S. bombings against the air bases of Ciudad Libertad, San Antonio de los Baños and Santiago de Cuba.

During the burial of the fallen, the historic leader, Fidel Castro, ratified before the world the socialist character of the nascent Cuban Revolution.

On that occasion he expressed “…and that we have made a socialist revolution under the very noses of the United States, and that we defend that socialist revolution with those rifles, and that we defend that socialist revolution with the courage with which yesterday our anti-aircraft gunners riddled the aggressor planes with bullets”.

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