Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, will be commemorated on Thursday with a rally at the former Columbia Military Base and now the Ciudad Escolar Libertad educational complex in the Cuban capital.
The 50th anniversary of the entrance into Havana of the victorious Caravan of Liberty, which was led in 1959 by
Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, will be commemorated on Thursday with a rally at the former Columbia Military Base and now the Ciudad Escolar Libertad educational complex in the Cuban capital.
Since January 2, a group of 50 youths from each province have been retracing the route taken by members of the Rebel Army from Santiago de Cuba to Havana that consolidated the defeat of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.
On this occasion, the caravan members were chosen from among Pioneers (schoolchildren), members of the Federation of Intermediate Education Students and the Federation of University Students; outstanding youth,
teachers, doctors, artists, athletes, scientists, internationalists, campesinos; members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, and officers and soldiers from the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior.
In each province the caravan has held activities and visit historic sites and combatants and relatives of martyrs of the Revolution.