Cubans celebrate 48-years of socialism

Cuba: Cuba celebrated on Thursday the 48th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of its Revolution, a step that came out of the need to publicly embrace a fair and unitarian doctrine.

On 16 of April, 1961, at the burial of the victims of the airport raids, the day before of the Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) invasion, Fidel Castro announced Cuba would become a socialist country.

Previous violent clashes between social classes and the nationalization of foreign companies had paved the way to the socialist turn of the revolutionary process started in 1959 after dictator Fulgencio Batista was ousted by the Rebel Army.

Also obvious became the need to defend the Revolution from aggressions like the Apr. 15, 1961 raids on airports of San Antonio de los Banos, Ciudad Libertad and Santiago de Cuba. In the eulogy to the fallen, the people rose their rifles and sworn to defend what Fidel Castro defined as “Socialist Revolution of the humble and for the humble.” They were aware that they not only were defending the Revolution but the cause of socialism in America. Havana, Prensa Latina