More than a hundred friends and groups in solidarity with Cuba are today joining in the celebrations taking place all over the country for the Day of National Rebellion.

According to a national television report, the visitors will take part in the national ceremony for the day, to be held on 26 July in the central province of Sancti Spiritus.

It is also expected that during their stay on the island, a meeting will be held with members of the European José Martí brigade for voluntary work and solidarity with Cuba and the Juan Rius Rivera brigade from Puerto Rico.

The solidarity members will also take part in a political and cultural gala that will pay tribute to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

During these days, various activities are taking place inside and outside the Caribbean island to commemorate the events of 26 July 1953, when a group of young members of the so-called Centenary Generation stormed the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo, in the eastern region of the country.

Although on that date they were unable to achieve their goal of calling for an insurrection against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), the action inspired them to take up the armed struggle again a little more than three years later until they achieved the definitive revolutionary triumph in January 1959.