Cuba commemorates relevant action against Batista's tyranny

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 13 (ACN) On the 67th anniversary of the assault on the Presidential Palace, Cuban authorities and institutions recall today that important action carried out by young Cubans to execute dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Esteban Lazo, president of the Parliament, described March 13, 1957 as a day that transcends in history, when members of the Revolutionary Directorate also took over the Radio Reloj radio station in order to call for a popular insurrection.

In his message, published on X by the legislature, Lazo highlighted the admirable courage with which the leader, Jose Antonio Echeverria, and his comrades faced these actions, and remarked that they are an everlasting example.

For his part, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, on the same social network, paid tribute to the martyrs of these events, especially to Echeverria, who was machine-gunned in an unequal confrontation with Batista forces.

"Every day like March 13 means a top day, a luminous day in the life of our country. We remember these dates to redouble the impetus, to redouble the struggle," wrote Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.

The University of Havana also remembered its illustrious son Jose Antonio Echeverria, eternal president of the Federation of University Students (FEU) and stressed in its publication that he is always the one to turn to when the homeland needs courageous men to show the way.

On March 13, 1957, shortly before 3:30 in the afternoon, two cars and a truck with the Fast Delivery sign stopped in unison in front of one of the posts of the then Presidential Palace (today Museum of the Revolution), and its young crew members burst into the building with clean fire.

They were part of the armed wing of the FEU, the Revolutionary Directory, and had the purpose of executing the dictator Fulgencio Batista and handing over the weapons of the garrison to the people, who were to be summoned by the Radio Reloj radio station after its occupation by another group led by Jose Antonio Echeverria.