Tribute was paid on Wednesday in Cuba to the martyrs who were killed during the November 30, 1956, uprising in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and President Raul Castro sent floral wreaths in honor of the youths who died in the action, aimed at backing the landing of the Granma yacht, in which a group of revolutionaries —that included Fidel and Raul, as well as Ernesto Che Guevara, among many others— were coming from Mexico to continue the struggle for Cuba’s definitive independence.

Pepito Tey, Tony Aloma and Otto Parellada were some of the youths who died during those days and who received the tribute from the Cuban people.

The main rally to commemorate the date in Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday morning was attended by Jose Ramon Balaguer and Olga Lidia Tapia, members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of Cuba’s Communist Party (CCPCC), as well as Commander Julio Camacho Aguilera and Lazaro Exposito, members of the CCPCC.

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