This March 13 marks the 62nd anniversary of the assault on Radio Reloj, a revolutionary act of great audacity, executed by a commando of the Revolutionary Students Directory, headed by the leader of the University Student Federation José Antonio Echeverría.

The assault on the radio station Radio Reloj counted on the brave attitude of the announcers on duty, Floreal Chomon and Héctor de Soto.

In unison, other group carried out another action, of greater scope in terms of participants, the assault on the Presidential Palace with the aim of executing the tyrant Fulgencio Batista.

Both one event and the other were coordinated with great precision. Although the attack on the Presidential Palace was a key point in the operation, the call of José Antonio Echeverría, through the radio, constituted the decisive political aspect of that revolutionary operation.

The objectives set could not be achieved on March 13, 1957, when valuable comrades of the Revolutionary Students Directory, including its leader José Antonio Echevarría, fell in combat, but the operations of that day helped to raise the revolutionary climate in the face of the prevailing bloody dictatorship in the country.

The actions of Radio Reloj and the Presidential Palace responded to the signing of the Carta de México between Fidel Castro and José Antonio Echeverría, at the end of August 1956, where goals were set to combat the regime established with the March 10 military coup, 1952.

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