The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, said here that the 60 years of the assault on the Moncada barracks encourage ongoing changes in Latin America, reinforce hope and confirm that it was worth the fight.
During the commemoration of the event, , in the vicinity of Moncada and chaired by Cuban President Raul Castro, Maduro explained that Cubans are responsible for Latin America to be standing now and progress on integration and alliances encouraging it.
He gave an overview of insurrectionary struggles in Cuba since the wars of independence against Spanish colonialism and said that when the shots rang at Moncada and spread the smell of gunpowder, the Liberation Army mambises (independence fighters) were also fighting at the historic deed.
Maduro stressed the central figure of Jose Marti, whom he considered the best example of the interpretation and application of the great continental liberation project of Simon Bolivar.
The Venezuelan president referred to the visit of the late President Hugo Chavez to this city and the museum of military fortress and recalled that he described the attack on July 26, 1953 as a quixotic act of rebellion.