Chronology

Opening ceremony of the 10th National Workers’ Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Trade Union, where he said: “The destiny of Cuba and of the revolution is in the hands of the working class.”

A vigorous speech delivered at the closing ceremony of the 10th National Workers’ Congress of the Cuban Workers’ Trade Union, motivated by a division shown among delegates to the meeting.

Talks with students participating in military exercises, who set up a student battalion at the University of Havana Stadium, which Fidel visited at the invitation of the Federation of University Students.

Speech delivered at the University of Havana staircase, on the occasion of the 88th anniversary of the execution of eight students of medicine in 1871.
Mass meeting at Méndez Square (today Joaquín Agüero Square) in Camagüey province where he gave a short speech.
Interview granted to the press.
Address at the ceremony held at the former Ignacio Agramonte barracks in Camagüey, where that military institution was handed over to the Ministry of Education to be turned into a school.
Opening ceremony for Amalia Simoni General Hospital, the first health care institution inaugurated by the Revolution in Camagüey.

National Catholic Congress attended by Fidel, accompanied by President Osvaldo Dorticós, at the Civic Square.

Speech delivered in the open area opposite the Secondary Education Institute in Santiago de Cuba, on an anniversary of the uprising that took place in that city on November 30, 1956.

Participation in various events organized to commemorate Granma yatch landing in 1956. In one of his speeches he said: “By this time, on 1st December, we were approaching the Cuban coasts to start a war we did not know how long it would last, on a mountain range where we had never been, but strongly determined to win or die.”
A visit to houses built by the National Housing Institute (INAV, Spanish acronym) and a trip around “Manzana de Gómez” (Gómez Block) in Havana.
Opening ceremony, presided over by Fidel, of the Third Cattle Raising, Agricultural and Trade Fair in Santiago de Cuba, where he delivered a speech.

Fidel’s trip around Oriente province continued. He visited the monument marking the place where José Martí, our National Heroe, died in Dos Ríos, as well as Jiguaní, Baire, Contramaestre, Manzanillo and Yara villages.