HAVANA, Jan 9 (NNN-ACN) — Just like it did 65 years ago to the day as Commander in Chief Fidel Castro and the Rebel Army announced to the world the triumph of the Revolution, the Freedom Caravan arrive Monday (Jan 8) in this city.
After travelling through various municipalities of the capital city, the Caravan will have its final destination at Ciudad Escolar Libertad (former military camp Columbia), which will host the ceremony to commemorate the event.
People in Havana will gather at different points along the route to hail the Caravan and relive the feelings of that day in 1959, when Fidel addressed the crowds and talked to journalists on several occasions.
As is usual every year, a number of young people will receive their cards as new members of the Young Communist League and of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, recalled the entry into Havana of the Caravan of Freedom, after the revolutionary triumph of 1959.
On X, the president described that historic event as the most beautiful symbol of the victory and the moment of greatest joy for the Cuban people.
In the same social network, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, assured the validity of the words of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, 65 years ago when he said: “We do not fool ourselves into believing that in the future everything will be easy; perhaps in the future everything will be more difficult”.
On the occasion of the date, Manuel Marrero Cruz, evoked what happened that January 8 after a long journey from Santiago de Cuba, when the Caravan of Freedom, was received by a crowd of people, grateful, celebrating the triumph of our Revolution.
On Thursday, January 8, 1959, the main streets of this city were decorated with Cuban and 26th of July flags in state offices, stores and homes to welcome Fidel and the bearded men of the Sierra Maestra.
The revolutionaries, with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution at the head, took seven days to arrive in Havana accompanied by a thousand rebel fighters, including the members of the Jose Marti Column One of the Sierra Maestra and also by about 2,000 soldiers of the defeated army.
That day in Ciudad Libertad before the Cuban people, Fidel Castro said: “I believe that this is a decisive moment in our history: tyranny has been overthrown. The joy is immense. And yet, there is still much to be done. We do not mislead ourselves into believing that in the future everything will be easy; perhaps in the future everything will be more difficult. To tell the truth is the first duty of every revolutionary”. — NNN-ACN
