Through the social media platform X, the head of government noted that 60 years ago, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, presented the first Central Committee, “a genuine representative of the values of the Revolution,” and read the farewell letter from Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara.

Marrero remembered that this Friday also marks six decades since the creation of Granma newspaper, the official organ of the PCC.

The prime minister emphasized that the pages of Granma have chronicled “the beautiful work of the Revolution, and the challenge is to surpass ourselves every day.”

On October 3, 1965, at the former Chaplin Theater in the capital, now the Karl Marx Theater, during the closing speech of the Congress of the United Party of the Socialist Revolution of Cuba, then-Prime Minister Fidel Castro called for the union of all political forces and social sectors within the Communist Party of Cuba.

That evening, he also read the farewell letter that the revolutionary Che Guevara had left before leaving for Bolivia, where he continued the struggle for liberation and vindication of the peoples of the Americas.

During his speech, Fidel Castro announced the merger of the newspapers Revolucion and Hoy into a single official organ of the Communist Party under the name Granma, in homage to the yacht that brought the architects of the Revolution to Cuba in 1956.

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