Why Cuba’s Moncada Barracks Attack Still Matters Today

Ramona Wadi- More than seven decades after the Moncada attack, Cuba still faces the ever-present threat of US interference.

More than seven decades after the Moncada attack, Cuba still faces the ever-present threat of US interference.

July 26 marked the 71st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba in 1953. The incident was the first visible inkling that revolutionary struggle against the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista had started in Cuba. Commemorating the occasion, the World Federation of Trade Unions issued a statement calling for solidarity with the Cuban people, calling for an end to the US illegal blockade, the return of occupied Guantanamo to Cuba, an end to terror attacks and foreign intervention, as well as the removal of Cuba from the US State Sponsor of Terrorism List.

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