HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 16 (ACN) The people of Havana, with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, recalled today the 63rd anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist character of the Revolution.
The people of the capital city recalled the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who on the downtown corner of 23rd and 12th in Vedado said, on that historic April 16, 1961 -after the burial of the victims of the bombings of the previous day- that “this is the socialist and democratic Revolution, of the humble, with the humble and for the humble”.
During the ceremony, Livan Izquierdo Alonso, first secretary of the PCC in Havana, expressed that Fidel’s words, 63 years ago, were a combat order to defend the true independence conquered in January 1959.
That day marked the support of Havana residents and Cubans for the fallen in the bombing of the airports of Ciuda