Prime Minister Manuel Marrero recalled that it was also in that context that the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) was founded, ‘vanguard organization, superior leading political force of society and the State’, he wrote on that social network.

After 64 years of the definition of the political sign of the Cuban project, ‘we reaffirm our commitment to the defense of the Homeland, the Revolution and Socialism, in the face of imperialist threats, pressures and aggressions that seek to destroy our humanist work,’ said Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez.

Earlier, President Miguel Diaz-Canel, together with the Secretary of Organization of the PCC, Roberto Morales, led a political-cultural celebration of the date in which figures from various sectors presented the achievements of the Revolution and the commitment to continue its course.

At the confluence of 23rd and 12th Streets in the residential area of Vedado, hundreds of people from the capital evoked the events of that day in 1961 in which the road was defined in the construction of a social process based on humanism and equity. The first secretary of the PCC in Havana, Livan Izquierdo reviewed the event and highlighted the challenges the island is facing against the hostility of successive governments in states that seek to destroy that altruistic work, he said.

The proclamation of socialism here 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 historical leader, Fidel Castro, reaffirmed before the world the socialist character of the newborn Cuban Revolution.

On that occasion he expressed ‘…and the fact 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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