Raúl Castro and Díaz-Canel chair main event on July 26 in Cuba

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel are chairing the main event on the July 26, National Rebelliousness Day, in this central province.  

At the Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia Revolution Square, 5,000 people from Sancti Spiritus, on behalf of all Cubans, celebrate the 71st anniversary of the attacks on the the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons.

Also present are a delegation from Vietnam, and members of the José Martí European Brigade of Volunteer Work and Solidarity with Cuba, and the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade, from Puerto Rico, as well as the Venceremos Brigade, from the United States.

There is also a delegation of Cuban-Americans from the José Martí Cultural Society, an Afro-American group of solidarity with Cuba, and foreign students who recently graduated from the University of Medical Sciences in Sancti Spíritus.

This is the third time that the main event for the Moncada anniversary is commemorated in Sancti Spíritus, the homeland of Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia, hero of all three independence wars and a personal friend of José Martí.