At the same time, 05:15 local time, that 70 years ago Fidel Castro and young revolutionaries stormed the Moncada Barracks in pursuit of overthrowing Fulgencio Batista, Cubans evoke today the gestation.

In the polygon of the old military fortress converted into a school by the Revolution, some 10,000 people from Santiago gathered to celebrate National Rebellion Day, accompanied by Army General Raúl Castro, one of the combatants of the heroic action.

Among the participants, also, commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés, another of those involved in the epic that tried to “take heaven by assault” on that early morning of Carnival Sunday.

The first secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, also led the commemoration, which began with a cultural presentation, in which the emblematic Santiago conga with its drums and its Chinese bugle imitated those festivities in the city.

Actors Claudia Alvariño and Denys Ramos recited the poem “It was the morning of Santa Ana, by Jesús Orta Ruiz, the Naborí Indian, who has accompanied this endearing remembrance of Cubans for decades.