Raul Castro assumed Second Eastern Front leadership in Cuba

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, assumed, 66 years ago, the leadership of the Frank País Second Eastern Front, considered a model of political and military organization for the revolutionary triumph.

Founded in the country’s eastern region on March 11, 1958, the guerrilla territory reached 123,000 square kilometers and a population of half a million people.

Raul Castro founded and organized the Departments of Justice, Health, Public Works, Treasury, Propaganda, Inspection and Education, the Agrarian Bureau, and the Workers’ Bureau in the rebel demarcation.

As a result, 20 hospitals, field clinics, and some 400 schools were established, and hundreds of kilometers of roads and telephone lines were built.

During nine months and 20 days of its operation, the said Front seized 31 garrisons and posts of the Rural Guard, in addition to confiscating about 2,000 weapons from the enemy.

On the 65th anniversary of its founding last year, Raúl Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel led the political act and military ceremony at the Mausoleum of the martyrs of that rebel command.

The fighters who died in the struggle or after the revolutionary triumph in 1959 were honored during that ceremony.