66 years after that popular victory, a caravan headed by the member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba Zunilda García Garcés, first secretary in the special municipality, today recalled the release of the former Model Prison of Fidel Castro Ruz and other Moncadistas.
A quick review of the annals suggests referring to one of the crucial passages in the country's history, on March 10, 1952, when Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar came to power after the military coup against the corrupt, although constitutionally elected president , Carlos Prío Socarrás. With the event, supported by the United States, the Constitution of the Republic, in force since 1940, was repealed and the fierce dictatorship was established, characterized by brutal repression that accentuated the evils of that mediated republic.
This repressive wave found the necessary response in the so-called Generation of the Centennial of the birth of José Martí, Apostle of Cuban independence, whose memory was not allowed to die by those young people led by lawyer Fidel Castro Ruz. The feat carried out by that group of revolutionaries on July 26, 1953, when the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Bayamo, and Guillermón Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba - the Army's second military fortress - assaulted the barracks forever story.
Public opinion was moved by the massacre of most of the assailants and the abnormal circumstances of the trial (Case 37), conducted by the Santiago de Cuba Emergency Court, in which the survivors were prosecuted.
In October of that year, 26 of the more than 150 brave men who fought the unequal combat arrived at the then Isle of Pines, long sentences they had to serve in the Presidio Modelo.
The struggle began, first, as a Committee of Mothers of Political Prisoners, to later become a Family Committee, and finally a Pro-Amnesty Committee, soon the popular clamor for the release of these young people spread and the dictatorship could not ignore it. although Batista considered it an isolated adventure.
The political situation at the time distorted the outlook for the coup president and made minimal concessions in order to create a favorable climate for holding elections, among whose issues he took into account the Political Amnesty Law, from which the Moncadistas were excluded.
However, the movement that emerged from the end of 1953 and in which the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) and the University Student Federation (FEU) participated, acquired a wide dimension that influenced in favor of the inclusion in the amnesty of the revolutionaries.
That Sunday was not another day on the calendar, it was a turning point for the future of Cuba, at approximately 11 in the morning, they descended the stairs, smiling and with their arms raised, Fidel and Raúl Castro, Juan Almeida Bosque, Armando Mestre, Agustín Díaz Cartaya and others.
The caravan in reissuing of history left behind the current museum, a national monument, to go to the then Nuevo Virginia bar, visit the birthplace of Jesús Montané Oropesa, the only pinero member of the July 26 Movement, to conclude in the May 15 park, where the Isla Pinos hotel was located, a place where Fidel went to offer statements to the press
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