The Moncada pointed out the road until the final victory

Camagüey. July 26 ,1953 was in the history of this heroic, rebellious nation and revolutionary for tradition like a fact whose transcendency is lasting: the assault to the barracks Moncada, of Santiago de Cuba and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, of Bayamo.

March 10,1952 Fulgencio Batista played a treacherous military blow in cohabitation with the yank imperialism and a dictatorial government that sank to the nation in a deep political and bloody crisis, settled down and became worse the social wrongs that suffered with brutal fury the humblest and deprived sectors in that Cuba Neocolonial.

Oppressed by the abuse and the oppression, a group of youths directed by Fidel Castro and Abel Santa María, was given to the task of preparing a devastating blow to the tyranny, the attack to the barracks "Moncada" in Santiago fde Cuba and "Carlos Manuel de Céspedes" in Bayamo, actions that marked the beginning of the last stage of the fight of the town for its total liberation.

To the decision of the attackers united the historical and regional element: in East the three wars independentists had begun against the Spanish colonial domain, there popular insurrections took place in several moments and the spirit of rebelliousness of that heroic town, inspired the armed action by the second bigger strength of Cuba and the more far from the capital.

That Sunday of carnival of Santiago the young combatants, dresses with uniforms of the Army and directed by Fidel, executed the attack plan in total disadvantage in front of a superior enemy in weapons and in men, causes that gave origin to the failure of the action.

The assault to the barracks Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes didn't mean the victory of the Revolution in that instant, but it pointed out the road and it traced a strategic program of national liberation that multiplied the fight ideas that later reproduced in the Gamma, the Sierra and in Girón Beach. (Edilena Escobar)