With the presence of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, the central act of homage for the 65th anniversary of the armed popular uprising of September 5, 1957 took place in this city.

Also present were members of the Political Bureau, relatives of the fallen, ‘combatants among them Julio Camacho Aguilera, Commander of the Rebel Army and leader of the September 5th insurrection.

In José Martí Park in Cienfuegos, the people gathered early in the morning to pay tribute to those who offered their lives in the heroic deed against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

From dawn, students, workers, members of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior witnessed the symbolic assault on the former Navy base, the City Hall and the San Lorenzo School, places where the bloodiest battles of the insurrection of that September day took place.