Havana: The trial of the participants in the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, in eastern Cuba, is commemorated today regarding the 67th anniversary of the start of the process, Prensa Latina publishes.
The date, according to the journalist Marta Rojas, marked a word feat celebrated between the Palace of Justice and a small premises of the Saturnino Lora Hospital, in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, from September 21 to October 16, 1953.
In the first of these scenarios, the trial for all the defendants – with the exception of the leader of the action, Fidel Castro – took place, until the beginning of October, when the participants were convicted and the opposition politicians involved in the process and without direct relationship with the facts were released.
The days 21 and 22 of September were dedicated to judge Fidel as accused, who admitted to having directed the assault of July 26 of that same year.
Led to court with handcuffs, the young lawyer protested forcefully, forcing the head of the Chamber to order the handcuffs be removed, considered the first act of others that turned him from accused to accuser.
Subsequently, his self-defense plea, known as “History Will Absorve Me” (La Historia Me Absolverá), became one of the documents that marked the subsequent route of the Cuban Revolution.
During his trial, held on October 16, the leader of the movement advanced the projections of the political and social agenda after the rebel triumph, in contrast to the precarious situation in the Caribbean country at the time.
The manifesto came to be considered one of the main texts of political thought in Latin America.
In addition to exposing the crimes of the tyranny of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959), Fidel denounced the atrocities committed against the Moncada assailants and argued that the mastermind of that action was the National Hero, José Martí, whose centenary was being celebrated precisely that year.
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