U.S. finally got those damn Castros out!
"Cuba marks revolution anniversary" Associated Press, July 27, 2013
HAVANA — Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of the onset of its revolution Friday, with the aging Communist leader who took part in the initial failed uprising vowing to focus the future on younger generations that have been slow to come to power.
President Raul Castro spoke to a crowd of thousands outside a military barracks still visibly pockmarked with bullet holes from the 1953 assault that is considered the beginning of the rebellion.
Castro was just 22 when he followed his older brother Fidel’s lead in a seemingly suicidal attack on the Moncada barracks in the eastern city of Santiago, along with more than 100 other mostly youthful rebels opposed to strongman Fulgencio Batista.
‘‘The years have passed, but this continues to be a revolution of young people, as we were on July 26, 1953,’’ Castro said.
The Moncada raid was a disaster for the rebels, and many of them were tortured and killed.
But it helped make Fidel Castro the focus of opposition to Batista, whom he overthrew six years later after surviving prison and exile.
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