Havana, March 4 (RHC)-- President Miguel Díaz-Canel paid tribute to the more than 100 Cubans who lost their lives on March 4, 1960 during the terrorist attack against the French steamboat La Coubre in Havana's harbor.

Then, the historical leader of the revolution, Fidel Castro,during the burial of the victms said: "Now freedom means something else, freedom means homeland, and our challenge now is homeland or death." This is how our conviction was born, Diaz-Canel wrote in Twitter.

The sabotage was denounced by the island as a terrorist act orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to prevent the nascent revolution from strengthening  its military, since the boat was carrying weapons and ammunition.

The violent action was one of many organized, financed and promoted from North American territory against Cuba, with an accumulated balance of nearly three thousand 500 fatal victims and more than two thousand wounded.