This statement occurred during the funeral services of the victims of the US bombings in different parts of the national territory, as a prelude to the mercenary invasion of Playa Girón, province of Matanzas, in 1961.
Before the crowd gathered near the Christopher Columbus cemetery in Havana, Cuba’s top leader, Fidel Castro, expressed: this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the humble, with the humble and for the humble.
And for this revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble, we are willing to give our lives, he added.
The attendees, with their rifles raised, expressed their decision to defend the country, which is why the date went down in national history as Militiaman’s Day.
The day before, on April 15, enemy planes camouflaged with the insignia of the Revolutionary Armed Forces attacked the Ciudad Libertad airport, the San Antonio de los Baños air base and the Santiago de Cuba airport.
On the 17th, an armed brigade, trained and transported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, landed in the Zapata Swamp.
After 60 hours of hard fighting, the mercenaries were defeated and they surrendered.
at sunset on the 19th, and this action represented, in Fidel Castro’s words, the first great defeat of imperialism in Latin America.
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