Havana, Mar 6 (RHC) On Monday, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel commemorated the foundation, 65 years ago, of the Third Front, a bastion that was essential for the revolutionary victory.

“The Mario Muñoz Monroy Third Front wrote, with its founding chief, Commander Juan Almeida Bosque, a page of heroism that highlighted him among the mainstays of the triumph of the Revolution,” the head of State wrote on his Twitter account.

Diaz-Canel added that this insurrectional enclave in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba resulted from the revolutionary conception and offensive spirit of Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

With 57 combatants, in an area of more than 6,000 kilometers, the guerrilla detachment was named after Doctor Mario Muñoz Monroy, who participated in the attack on the Moncada Barracks.

The Third Front was decisive in the strategic conception to face the offensive by Fulgencio Batista’s army, which had some 10,000 members and intended to defeat the rebel forces with a powerful deployment of men and means in the eastern mountains.

It was also decisive in the actions by the so-called Operation Santiago and in the combats that made possible the revolutionary victory of January 1, 1959. (Source: PL)