The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) join the commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the assault on the Cuartel Moncada in Santiago de Cuba and Cuartel Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in Bayamo. The rebellion of the Cuban people set the prairie of freedom on fire, by the hand of Fidel Castro Ruz and his generation of brave men to change history forever, with José Martí as the spiritual and intellectual author of that feat.

On that July 26, 1953, the pro-imperialist dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista began its countdown and 6 years later it would be overthrown by a popular victory that sealed the path of liberation in Cuba. Cubans recovered their dignity on that July 26 and have only grown stronger in these 65 years of the Revolution.

Seventy-one years ago, Cuban youth emerged with their rebelliousness, passion and energy to fight for justice, sovereignty and equality through organized popular resistance.

The Bolivarian Alliance celebrates the rebelliousness of that time, led by the courage of those young people that paved the way for a brave and indestructible socialist revolution to continue building the Great Homeland, to keep fighting for the just causes of humanity, to build the alternative for life and peace.

The ALBA-TCP governments and peoples congratulate the Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, the brotherly and courageous President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and the heroic Centennial Generation that gave everything for the dignity of their homeland and the amazing Cuban people, who continue to be an example of independence and dignity.

Caracas, July 26, 2024