Cuban President Raul Castro, celebrations to commemorate Thursday the National Rebellion Day, which recalls the assault in 1953 on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons.
From early morning, thousands of residents in this eastern city, located over 559 miles east of Havana, filled the Revolution Square Mariana Grajales on behalf of all Cubans.
Guantanamo residents from different generations paid tribute to those who 59 years ago marked a new stage in the struggle for the independence of Cuba.
On July 26, 1953, youth of the generation of the centenary, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of national hero Jose Marti, - attacked the Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba) and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Granma) occupied by the troops of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Among the attackers were the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and others who later starred in the landing of the Granma yacht and the emergence of the rebel army in the mountains of the eastern Sierra Maestra.
Shortly before the starting here in Guantanamo the celebratios to commemorate the National Rebellion Day, over one hundred pioneers (elementary students) staged in Santiago de Cuba the traditional symbolic assault on the Moncada barracks, converted by the revolution in school and museum.