Díaz-Canel presides over ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of Operation Carlota (+ Photos)

Limonar, Matanzas, November 6 - Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, presided today over the event and military ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the start of Operation Carlota, the historic internationalist mission to aid Angola.

Floral wreaths in the name of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz; of Díaz-Canel; and of the people of Cuba were placed before the Monument to the Rebel Slave on the grounds of the Triunvirato museum, to honor the memory of the heroes and martyrs who participated in the Operation.

Also on the grounds of the former Triunvirato sugar mill, the 182nd anniversary of the historic uprising led in the area by Carlota, a Lucumí slave whose name identifies the operation that became an epic of solidarity, uniting Cubans and Africans since 1975, is being commemorated.

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Among those participating in the event are Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party; Army Corps General Joaquín Quintas Solá, Vice Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR); other political and governmental representatives; the ambassadors of Namibia and South Africa; the Chargé d'Affaires of Angola in Cuba; a representation of reserve generals who actively participated in the internationalist mission, and relatives of fallen combatants.

The operation that began on November 5, 1975, transcended as a just internationalist military feat in the contemporary history of Cuba, and that achieved the definitive independence of Angola, the liberation of Namibia and the elimination of the apartheid regime in South Africa. (Text and photos: ACN)