Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Isla de la Juventud, May 15th. - The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz- Canel led here the central national event for the 70th anniversary of the release of the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and other young assailants to the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks.
In commemoration of the event, together with about six thousand inhabitants of this Special Municipality, were also present, the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, and the commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés and the main authorities of the territory.
The release of the National Men's Prison of Pines Island, called Presidio Modelo, was possible thanks to a powerful pro-amnesty movement that took hold across the country and became the largest mobilization in favor of that cause carried out so far.
The young revolutionaries left on 15 May 1955 of the prison located on Isla de Pinos - currently Isla de la Juventud, after an unjust confinement and a rigged trial for their participation in the armed actions of 26 July 1953.
On May 16, Fidel Castro, after giving a press conference at the Isla de Pinos hotel, gave journalists the Manifesto to the People of Cuba, in which he reaffirmed his intention to continue, after his release, the struggle without rest or fun, without truce, until Cuba's freedom.
The country stands tremendously against those who mistreat it, a new faith, an unusual awakening in the national consciousness, is emerging. Pretending to drown her is to provoke an unprecedented catastrophe whose fatal results will fall on the heads of the culprits, he said.
Nearly two months later, Fidel Castro left for Mexico, where he prepared the expedition of the Granma yacht, which landed in eastern Cuba to begin the guerrilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra, which culminated in the victory of the rebel forces on January 1, 1959. (Text and photo: PL)
