"An Island on a Continent"

– Gambian doctors who are studying specialties in Cuba joined the solidarity with the Caribbean island.

Havana, Jul 25 (Agencias) Voices of solidarity with Cuba were heard this weekend on all continents at the gates of the celebration of the 69th anniversary of the attack on Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.

On July 26, 1953, young people led by the then young lawyer Fidel Castro tried to take those two fortresses in the east of the island, actions that failed militarily, but represented the beginning of the revolutionary struggle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958). ).

The Moncada was the starting point of the deed that would continue years later with the armed struggle in the Sierra Maestra until culminating in the revolutionary victory of January 1, 1959.

In these days, Cuban residents or on work missions abroad and friends of the island and its emancipation process carried out numerous actions to remember the date, and at the same time demand the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States almost from the very moment of the beginning of the Revolution.

Those voices were heard this Sunday in places as distant as Lebanon, where dozens of Cubans, Lebanese and Palestinians accompanied the Antillean diplomatic mission in the celebration for the Day of National Rebellion on July 26.

Meanwhile, in Colombo, Srilanka, the Organization for Peace and Solidarity of that Indian Ocean nation described July 26 as an affirmation of the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban people after centuries of domination, occupation, repression and subjugation, he pointed out in a letter Bimal Rathnayake, president of the said organization.

In Nairobi, Cubans and Kenyans came together to celebrate the date and on the occasion, Kenyan professionals who graduated on the island, together with Cuban residents and diplomats, highlighted the anti-imperialist vocation of the people of the Caribbean nation.

From Havana, the young Gambian doctors, Habibou Jallow and Lamin S. Minteh, who are studying medicine specialties there, joined the solidarity with the Caribbean island with greeting messages for July 26.

In the same way, the Group of solidarity with Cubans in Malaysia held its general assembly in tribute to the 69th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, diplomatic sources highlighted today.

In numerous countries, the acts in remembrance of the event began on Saturday, such as in Mexico, where nationals and Cubans carried out a march called by the Mexican Solidarity Movement and supported by numerous organizations, including the José Martí of Cuban residents.

In Chile, the Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba in Santiago also expressed its repudiation of Washington’s hostile policy by placing a large canvas along one of the bridges over the Mapocho River, demanding the elimination of the blockade.

Meanwhile, in Lima, the Peruvian political analyst Gustavo Espinoza, president of the solidarity cultural collective SoliCuba, highlighted that the Assault on Moncada Barracks marked a milestone in the liberation process of Latin America.

In France, voices of solidarity were also raised and the emblematic Plaza de la República welcomed dozens of French and Cuban residents in a mobilization to denounce the United States blockade against the island and demand its immediate lifting.

Support for the Antillean island has also been present on social networks, in which admirers of the Revolution have expressed their solidarity.

Other friends of Cuba in the world are on Cuban soil, as is the case of the Caravan of Pastors for Peace, an American solidarity movement that is already 30 years old, and that with nearly a hundred representatives arrived on the island with the help to alleviate the blockage.

They will be present this Tuesday at the central act for the date, which this year will be held in the city of Cienfuegos, in the south center of the oldest Caribbean archipelago.