The Cuban regime celebrated in the early hours of Friday, amidst an atmosphere of gloom, the official event for July 26, on the 71st anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
The Cuban vice president Salvador Valdés Mesa said that "the ideas for which Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada remain firm and unalterable among the people." Unknowingly, the politician acknowledged that the six decades of dictatorship have been worthless, because the country is in a situation similar to, or much worse than, that of 1953.
According to Granma, 5,000 people from Sancti Spíritus attended the event, but they did not specify where the fuel for such a large activity comes from, given the current context of the energy crisis in Cuba.
The event for July 26 was presided over by Raúl Castro Ruz and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. Additionally, Deivy Pérez Martín, First Secretary of the Party in Sancti Spíritus, and historical figures such as Ramiro Valdés Menéndez and José Ramón Machado Ventura, among others, were present.
A group of 135 visitors from 24 nations was also greeted at the communist political event, which stood out for exalting the revolutionary narrative, despite the growing difficulties the country faces.
Salvador Valdés's speech emphasized "creative resistance" as a response to the alleged adversities generated by U.S. policy.
However, it omitted the government's responsibility in the deep economic and social crisis that the country is experiencing, where inefficiency and corruption have worsened the current situation of the Cubans.
The event began at 5:15 am, in the Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Serafín Sánchez, and ended at dawn, with five thousand people returning to their homes to face the daily hardships, but with a "sense of historical moment," "resilient," and hoping that a touch of grace would make them sufficiently "creative" to save the revolution from its imminent fate.
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