Bolivia joins Cuba to celebrate National Rebellion Day

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Bolivian president Luis Arce recalled the words of commander Fidel Castro, when he said that history is not made by one particular man, but by the people. At the same time, Arce reflected on unity, explaining that it is the condition for victory and that it is not an empty formulation, but rather “historical political value”. teleSUR

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00:00And in Bolivia, a ceremony was held to commemorate the attack on the Moncada barracks,

00:04which marked the beginning of the revolution led by Fidel Castro in Cuba.

00:08Bolivian President Luis Arcef recalled the words of Commander Fidel Castro

00:12when he said that history is not made by one particular man, but by the people.

00:17At the same time, Arcef reflected on unity, explaining that it is the condition for victory

00:22and that it is not an empty formulation, but rather historical political value.

00:26On July 26, 1933, more than 100 young Cubans turned the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks

00:31to overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista,

00:34a moment that particularly laid the foundation for the fight for freedom over the next five years.

00:45The powerful in the north will never forgive the fact

00:49that the first socialist country in the hemisphere

00:52was precisely the first colony they conquered

00:56when they first became an empire.

00:59What an irony of history.

01:01Cuba, the first prey of Yankee imperialism,

01:04Cuba, the first to emancipate itself

01:07and set the course for the decline of that Yankee imperialism.

01:12It was not for nothing that she affirmed

01:15that the Cuban Revolution is the most important cardinal event

01:19in Latin America and the Caribbean.

01:21And then...

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