In the social network X, the president evoked the phrase of the commander Juan Almeida Bosque, “No one surrenders here,” pronounced in the middle of the combat of December 5, 1956, and stressed that this slogan is maintained as “holy sign of the Cuban Revolution”.

After the landing of the Granma Yacht on December 2, 1956 in the vicinity of Playas Las Coloradas, in the east of the island, the expeditionaries had their baptism of fire in Alegria de Pio just three days later.

This first combat ended in the defeat and dispersion of the troops, however, two weeks later the leaders of the Rebel Army met to continue the fight.

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