- The Union directorship of the former Boston Sugar Mill in Oriente personally presents Fidel with 10 151 pesos as their contribution to Agrarian Reform.
Chronology
- Fidel appears of Meet the Press to explain the Law of Agrarian Reform.
- Fidel gives a speech at the Tenth National Sugar Industry Congress. He announces that 5 000 schools and 500 sports fields will be created.
- Lunch hosted by the Association of Doctors of Science, Philosophy and Letters, where Fidel took the floor and said: “Without an Educational Reform, other reforms would be meaningless.”
- A working visit to Ciénaga de Zapata, accompanied by Celia Sánchez, Antonio Núñez Jiménez and Lupe Véliz, to control execution of Transformation projects in the area.
- A visit to Aguada de Pasajeros, in Las Villas, where he addressed the people living in the surrounding area of “Covadonga” sugar mill.
- Accompanied by Pedro Miret and Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Fidel overflew Ciénaga de Zapata territory and paid a visit to a coal merchants’ hamlet in Cayo Ramona (Ramona Cay) and Playa Girón (Pay of Pigs).
- Participation in the search for Commander Raúl Castro, who got lost in Ciénaga de Zapata while overflying that territory in a small Cessna plane.
- At the Colón Cemetery, during the funeral ceremonies at the exhuming of the victims of the expeditionary yacht Corynthia, Fidel gives a speech. He refers to the attack on the Uvero Barracks in 1957 and emphasizes Agrarian Reform.
- A visit to the Agronomy School at the University of Havana, where he spoke with students and professors.
- A visit to farms that had been confiscated by the Revolutionary Government in Pinar del Río province, like those owned by Eusebio Mujal and Pedro Martínez, which would later operate as cooperatives.
- Interview granted to the press.
- Fidel responds to questions from the press about the declaration made by the Minister (?) of Nicaragua in reference to Cuban expeditionaries headed towards that Latin American country.
- Fidel presides over the meeting which constitutes the directorship of INRA (the National Institute for Agrarian Reform), after the Law for Agrarian reform comes into effect. He is appointed President of INRA.
- As part of the INRA plan, Fidel visits the Isle of Pines. He tours a farm of more than 63,000 acres that was owned by Francisco Cagigal. He makes a speech and proposes the rehabilitation of the Isle of Pines.