October 9, 1955

He gave the closing speech at an event in the Chapultepec Forest organized by Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, Cuban and other Latin American exiles, as well as by young Mexicans, to commemorate the 87th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban independence struggle in 1868.

That Monday afternoon, he went to the Mexico City airport with Raúl, Juan Manuel Márquez, Jesús Montané and other militants to meet members of the National Directorate of the 26th of July Movement, Pedro Miret Prieto and Melba Hernández Rodríguez del Rey, who had arrived on a flight from Havana.