Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez attended a gala performance dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo.

As part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, more than 200 members of Cuba solidarity movements from 26 countries held a meeting in the city of Santiago de Cuba, chaired by President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.

 “Cuba’s experience is very valuable, and it is very important that we learn from each other,” said Ertol Zhurda, a 29-year-old communist engineer from Greece, one of the 47 members of the 50th José Martí Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity with Cuba, made up of 13 countries.

 “With the fortitude of the nation and of the unity of all women and men and all families, with the color Cuban, we fight on,” Cuba's deputy prime minister Ines Maria Chapman posted on Twitter to hail the International Day of Afro-descendant Women.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla lamented on Twitter the heavy toll taken by wildfires in Algeria’s north-east provinces and sent his condolences to the Algerian people and government for those who died in recent days.

The study of environmental DNA will make it possible to verify the presence of the Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) in its habitat in this western region, as a new tool in favor of the conservation of the species exclusive to the Caribbean island.

The Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Jagua fortress, which for almost 280 years has been the guardian of the Bay of Cienfuegos (central Cuba), is the only one of its kind in the country included in the Carifor project, a network that gathers seven similar fortifications located in the Caribbean Sea and linked to cruise ship tourism.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, praised today the 508th anniversary of the founding of the city of Santiago de Cuba, which will host the main event for the 70th anniversary of the assaults on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons.

The Heredia Theater, in this city, will host today the political and cultural gala in honor of the 70th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes garrisons.

The president of the Cuban Writers and Artists’ Union Luis Morlote is heading a delegation to the 25th Europe-Latin America Parliamentary Assembly, underway in Madrid, Spain.

Activists attending a Caribbean forum in solidarity with Cuba in this eastern city demanded the end of the over-60-year US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.

Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and President of Cuba is touring social centers in eastern Santiago de Cuba, venue of July26th National Rebellion Day ceremony, marking the 70th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada Garrison back in 1965 by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro.

Cuba remembers today the Latin American independence leader Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of his birth.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, denounced today the effects of the U.S. economic, commercial and financial blockade on his country, including barriers to the purchase of medicines.

Intended to strengthen the struggle for peace and regional integration, the Caribbean Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes began at the University of Oriente, in the city of Santiago de Cuba.