Raúl Castro absent as Cuba celebrates anniversary of key revolutionary attack
President Miguel Díaz-Canel read Castro’s message as the rally marked the 73rd anniversary of the Moncada assault and Cuba’s deepening crisis.
- Cuba commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the July 26, 1953, attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, an event regarded as the start of the Cuban Revolution. President Miguel Díaz-Canel led the ceremony in Pinar del Río.
- Former President Raúl Castro, 95, did not attend the annual celebration for the first time in at least three decades. No official explanation was given, although Díaz-Canel read a message from Castro during the event.
- In his speech, the Cuban president condemned recent U.S. actions, including new allegations against Cuba and sanctions, accusing Washington of pursuing a policy of "maximum pressure" and describing its measures as a form of "genocide" against the island.
- Cuba continues to face severe shortages of fuel, electricity, water, medicine, and other essentials, with prolonged daily blackouts and worsening economic conditions compounded by sanctions and domestic financial challenges.
- The commemoration underscored deteriorating U.S.-Cuba ties, as Havana blames recent U.S. sanctions and the oil embargo for deepening the country's economic crisis, while rejecting U.S. accusations of espionage and other alleged activities.
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73 years ago, a group of guerrillas led by the late dictator Fidel Castro began his famous Cuban Revolution with the Assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Despite the loud failure of that uncoordinated and disorganized action — the assault left 60 casualties and the respective captures of Fidel and his brother Raúl Castro — the insurgent July 26th Movement emerged from there, so historians mark the attack as the milestone that beg…
Former President of the Council of State Raúl Castro, a key figure in the Cuban Revolution who still wields immense political influence, did not appear at the Revolution Day celebrations for the first time in over 30 years, sparking interest in the reasons behind his absence. According to the Associated Press on the 26th (local time), President Miguel Díaz-Canel attended the Revolution Day ceremony held in Pinar del Río, Cuba, in place of Raúl C…
Raúl Castro was absent at the Moncada event and Díaz-Canel denounced that U.S. sanctions are aimed at suffocating Cuba.
The Cuban president criticized the new sanctions of the Donald Trump administration and rejected accusations of interference and support for terrorism; the tightening of measures aggravates the economic crisis on the island, with blackouts and fuel shortages
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