Cuba commemorates Granma Landing and FAR Day in Caracas with floral offering
MPPRE Press
Published at: 06/12/2024 02:13 PM
On the occasion of the
68th anniversary of the landing of the Granma expeditionaries and Day of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces (FAR) of the Republic of Cuba, the Minister of People's
Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, accompanied
Cuban ambassador Dagoberto Rodríguez, at the wreath ceremony to the Liberator Simon Bolivar, in the Mausoleum of
National Pantheon, in Caracas.
The event, which
was attended by ambassadors and consuls of the Diplomatic Corps and
officials of the Venezuelan State, began with the singing of the glorious
notes of the national anthems of both countries, followed by the placement of the
wreath and the signing of the minutes book.
The
Venezuelan Foreign Minister highlighted the combative spirit of the feat that laid the foundations of the Cuban
Revolution and which, in turn, inspired the struggle for imperial liberation in various countries of the world.
“We have the
opportunity to commemorate a revolutionary feat, a feat led, as
always, by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, with a group of
revolutionaries who offered their lives to begin a liberating feat,” said the diplomat.
On December
2, 1956, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, commanded the landing
of 82 expeditionaries to the Cuban coast, after a voyage that began in
Tuxpan, Mexico, on November 25 of the same year. The landing of the
guerrilla fighters in the area of Las Coloradas, currently the province of Granma, served to begin the fight
for liberation from the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
The arrival of the Granma
boat to the largest of the Antilles coincided with the
armed uprising of the population of Santiago de Cuba, which helped to divert the attention
of the military forces from the landing. Later, the
survivors of the fighting formed the FAR, formed after the revolutionary
triumph of January 1, 1959 by Army General Raúl
Castro, with the fusion of rebel forces with labor, peasant, student and university militias.
Bilateral relations between Caracas and Havana were strengthened with the beginning of the Bolivarian
Revolution in 1999. Since then, both peoples have ratified
the bonds of brotherhood and cooperation in various areas, such as health,
education, energy and tourism.
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