This anniversary commemorates the respective attacks on Moncada Garrison in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Garrison in Bayamo, which, under the leadership of Fidel Castro, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, marked the beginning of the liberation struggle that led to the triumph of the rebel forces in 1959.

According to the Cuban Friendship Institute(ICAP), the activist group is made up of 370 friends of the island, representing eight solidarity projects, such as the “Venceremos” brigades from the United States, the Jose Marti Brigade from Europe, the Latin American and Caribbean Brigade, and a Brazilian internationalist Caravan.

ICAP’s First Vice President Noemi Rabaza stated that members of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)-Pastors for Peace, the Jose Marti Cultural Association, the Friends of Sortu-Basque Country organization, and the “With Love for Cuba” program, a group of Ethiopians who graduated in Cuba, will also participate.

Rabaza highlighted “the response of the international solidarity movement with Cuba, which includes more than 1,700 organizations in 153 countries, which reject the US government’s harassment of the island and admire the popular resistance in defense of sovereignty,” the Cuban News Agency informed.

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