Cuba marks Revolutionary Armed Forces Day
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Cuba commemorates this Wednesday the Day of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the 64th anniversary of the landing of Granma Yacht expedition that began the guerrilla struggle against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1959).
On December 2, 1956, the 82 expeditionaries, led by Fidel Castro, landed in eastern Cuba after setting sail from the Mexican port of Tuxpan on November 25.
After landing, expeditionaries were surprised and dispersed by Batista Army's troops, they regrouped and formed the nucleus of the future Rebel Army that fought the dictatorship in the mountains of eastern Cuba until it triumphed on January 1, 1959.
Historiography records the moment of the reunion in Cinco Palmas, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range, when Fidel Castro, after a part of the combatants were reunited, with just seven rifles, exclaimed: 'Now we have won the war,' as an expression of faith in victory.
In honor of that date, the FAR was officially founded in that day of 1961.