Havana, January 8 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel recalled today through his account on X, formerly Twitter, the arrival of the Caravan of Freedom to Havana after the revolutionary triumph of 1959.

The president described that historic passage as the most beautiful symbol of victory and the moment of greatest joy for the Cuban people.

On the same social network, Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, assured the validity of the words of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, 65 years ago when he said: "We do not fool ourselves into believing that everything will be easy in the future; perhaps in the future everything will be more difficult".

On the occasion of the date, Manuel Marrero Cruz, evoked what happened that January 8 after a long journey from Santiago de Cuba, when the Caravan of Freedom was received by a sea of people, grateful, celebrating the triumph of our Revolution.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez did not want to overlook this day and wrote in his X account: "with the same jubilation and commitment to the Revolution, socialism, unity, sovereignty and independence of the Homeland, we Cubans remember the 65th anniversary of the triumphal entry into Havana of the Caravan of Freedom, led by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro".

Rodriguez made mention of Fidel Castro's words that day, "The Revolution is, above all, that yearning to do good to all human beings; the yearning to do good to the people, the yearning to do good, always good, never evil". 

On Thursday, January 8, 1959, the main streets of this city were decorated with Cuban and 26th of July flags in state offices, stores and homes to welcome Fidel and the bearded men of the Sierra Maestra.

The revolutionaries, with the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution at the head, took seven days to arrive in Havana accompanied by a thousand rebel fighters, including the members of the José Martí Column One of the Sierra Maestra and also by about two thousand soldiers of the defeated army.

That day in Ciudad Libertad before the Cuban people, Fidel Castro said: "I believe that this is a decisive moment in our history: tyranny has been overthrown. The joy is immense. And yet, there is still much to be done. We do not delude ourselves into believing that from now on everything will be easy; perhaps in the future everything will be more difficult.

To tell the truth is the first duty of every revolutionary". (Source:ACN)