The date was chosen in 1959 and also coincides with the murders of Frank Pais and Raul Pujol, young men captured in Santiago de Cuba as a result of a tip-off and later brutally shot by the tyranny’s repressive force.

With Frank’s death, the July 26th Movement lost its leader of action and sabotage and one of its most exceptional fighters.

Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero commemorated the date on his social media profile, X, and reaffirmed that the legacy of our martyrs “symbolizes the lineage of Cuban youth, always at the forefront in the defense of the Homeland.”

For his part, the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Roberto Morales, affirmed that Cuba does not forget any of its fallen fighters and that their example calls us to continue winning.

The Day of the Martyrs of the Cuban Revolution not only remembers those who fell in this final stage of the struggle, but also all those killed in the struggle for independence from its beginning and were unable to fulfill their dream of seeing a free Homeland.

It is not a mourning, it is a promise. Their names are in the memory and soul of this indomitable nation, where every heartbeat echoes those who sowed freedom with blood and heroism.

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