- In the early morning of that Monday the motorboat El Pinero arrives at the port of Batabanó, where the villagers assemble to see Fidel and the moncadistas, before they take the train to continue their journey to Havana.
- At 7:45 in the morning, the train with Fidel and his comrades arrives in Havana Train Station. They are received by an excited crowd which includes fighters who took part in the July 26, 1953 events, relatives of those killed in action, leaders of the University Students Federation, the Orthodox Party, the Civic Front of Martian Women and other revolutionary fighters. The magazine Bohemia reviewed the moment in its column “In Cuba": "Fidel was taken out through a window and walked on the crowds shoulders." A group of mothers of Moncada martyrs displayed a Cuban flag and sang the national anthem. The hundreds present joined them.... "
- He moves to an apartment on 23rd and 18th, in El Vedado neighborhood, which his sisters had arranged for him. There he answers the questions of the press. Among other things, he points out that: "In the ranks of the Cuban independence party, not everyone had developed the same degree of revolutionary consciousness, but from the union of all, our emancipation arose. The current moment also demands unity, but under a single purpose. "
- An interview with journalist Guido García Inclán in the "El periódico del aire" (The newspaper of the air) of the C.O.C.O. radio station.
- La Calle newspaper publishes the "Manifesto to the People of Cuba by Fidel Castro and combatants"
- He gives an interview with Agustín Alles Soberón, which was later published in Bohemia Magazine on May 22nd that year, with the title: "From Moncada to Prison to Freedom: "I am a combatant without hatred or resentment." Fidel Castro."
Chronology
He goes to the building Retiro Odontológico, located on L Street between 21st and 23rd , where a meeting is broadcasted by Onda Hispano – Cubana Radio station. The fist speaker is Pastorita Núñez and then Fidel takes the floor even though he was not announced. When he leaves the police raids the place and detains the stations director.
The police prevent him from attending a demonstration organized by the University Students Federation at University of Havana staircase.
- The Havana newspaper La Calle provides front page coverage of Fidel Castro Ruz statements about the latest events in the country. He states: "We persevere in our aim to unite all the country’s moral forces to demand with the unanimous support of the people a decent and bloodless exit to the tragic Cuban situation even when the government resolutely strives to close all roads of peace.
He goes to greet professor Rafael García Bárcena, leader of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR), who is coming back to Cuba after several months in exile. Days later the two leaders conduct a series of interviews in search of unity in the struggle against the dictatorship.
He presents himself at the Emergency Court to denounce the arrest of revolutionary Pedro Miret Prieto that day, arrested by the police under charges of organizing a new insurrectional movement.
He holds a meeting in the apartment of 23 and 18, in El Vedado, with the moncadistas Antonio Darío López, who since the end of February had returned clandestinely to Cuba after 18 months of exile in Guatemala and Mexico.
Bohemia magazine publishes his article "¡Chaviano, Liar!", A strong response from Fidel to the jackal of Santiago de Cuba, who in the magazine previous issue distorted the events and hid the crimes of the dictatorship on July 26. 1953
- The newspaper La Calle publishes on the front page the article by Fidel under the title "Chaviano, the agitator", in which he responds to accusations by regime representatives and the dictator himself. In it he writes: "It is not with threats that response is to be given to the truths of my article. Threats, moreover, are worth nothing where irrefutable truths are spoken. "
- He visits the editorial department of Prensa Libre newspaper: “All the regime’s spokespersons have come down on me asking for my head but without debating a single item in my article”.
- The newspaper La Calle publishes his article "¡Murdering Hands!"
- The newspaper La Calle publishes his article "What they were going to say and they prevented me from saying" in which he states that "The newspaper La Calle, together with magazine Bohemia, have been a decisive factor in the triumph of the truth and in the overwhelming victory we have achieved over hypocrisy and crime, La Calle newspaper cannot fail, it must not fail because of lack of resources, it would be a sham. Let the dictatorship close it, that is Ok. But do not let it perish due to lack of help! The people have the duty to help the paper and the people will help you. "
- La Calle newspaper publishes Fidel's convincing denunciation of the murder of the former commander of the Navy and combatant of the Spanish Civil War, Jorge Agostini. With the title "Facing fear and crime" he says: "Will the savage act remain unpunished? Does a group of men have the right to wrest the life of their fellow men, with greater impunity than that which the worst gangsters ever had? Today is Jorge Agostini, a new martyr of the struggle for national liberation. Who will be the next combatant to fall down riddled with bullets? "