00:00And this Thursday Cuba commemorates the 65th anniversary of the declaration of the socialist
00:04character of the revolution by the commander-in-chief Fidel Castro Ruz.
00:08On April 15, 1961, the United States bombed the airports of San Antonio de los Baños,
00:14Ciudad Libertad and Santiago de Cuba, resulting in seven fatalities.
00:18During the funeral, Fidel Castro delivered a speech in which he defined the Cuban revolution
00:22as socialist and democratic of the Humboldt, by the Humboldt, for the Humboldt.
00:27The next day, Washington launched an armed invasion at Playa Girón, in the province of Matanzas,
00:32which was defeated by Cuban forces in less than 72 hours, marking the first defeat of U.S. imperialism in
00:38the Americas.
00:44The main event of this celebration took place at the corner of 23rd and 12th Streets in the Cuban capital
00:50and was attended by Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, along with other party and government officials,
00:55as well as a massive turnout of the people.
00:58The Havana crowd witnessed an event that combined student speeches and official addresses with a wide-ranging cultural program.
01:06And with a tightening of the U.S. blockade and the energy blockade against the island, attendees reaffirmed the continuing
01:12validity
01:12of the oath to defend socialism made 65 years ago in the wake of the bombing prior to the Playa
01:19Girón invasion.
01:27We defeated apartheid, illiteracy, illiteracy, and curable diseases in other parts of the world.
01:39To those places, we will send doctors, not bombs, teachers, not bombs.
01:45That is socialism, a society where man is a brother to man, not a wolf to man.
01:50Donde el hombre es hermano y no lobo del hombre.
01:54And the Cuban leader reiterated in the...
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