Cuba Prepares to Celebrate 50th Ann. of Guerrilla War. (1 Viewer)

[Hatuey]

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HAVANA - Fighter jets zoomed overhead and armed vehicles rolled through the Plaza of the Revolution Monday as Cuba's military rehearsed for a parade marking the 50th anniversary of a guerrilla war that brought Fidel Castro to power.

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The Dec. 2 military parade will be the first in Havana in a decade and will mark the anniversary of the 1956 landing of a yacht that carried ailing Cuban leader and his armed band to Cuba to launch their guerrilla war.

The event will also salute Castro, who asked that celebrations for his 80th birthday on Aug. 13 be delayed so he could recover from intestinal surgery that prompted him to step aside temporarily in July. Castro's brother, 75-year-old Defense Minister Raul Castro, has been acting president since then.

During Monday's rehearsal, uniformed soldiers on foot and horseback practiced their steps across the broad plaza.

Olive-green armored vehicles and artillery on wheels were transported to the site, as well as a replica of the yacht named Granma, which carried the Castro brothers and other rebels from Mexico, landing on Cuban shores on Dec. 2, 1956. The date is considered the founding of communist Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces.

The revolution culminated in the ouster of Fulgencio Batista's government and Castro's rise to power in 1959.

There has been no official word on whether Castro will attend the parade or a series of events beforehand planned for his birthday.

The nature of Castro's ailment and surgery has been treated as a state secret and he has not been seen in public since the July 31 announcement of his illness, although officials have occasionally released photographs and videos of him during his recovery.

Way to go Cuba. Wooooooooh. Wait what are we celebrating?

 

[cherokee]

Cuba's military rehearses for parade - Yahoo! News



Way to go Cuba. Wooooooooh. Wait what are we celebrating?

Care to make a point in all of this?
So what Castro's rise to power in 1959.
Who cares?

Oh and one last thing..the 50 years later will be on 2009 not 2006....:doh

 

[Hatuey]

Care to make a point in all of this?
So what Castro's rise to power in 1959.
Who cares?

Oh and one last thing..the 50 years later will be on 2009 not 2006....:doh

Ummm 2009 would be them celebrating the revolution.

2006 Is the begining of the war.

 

[cherokee]

Ummm 2009 would be them celebrating the revolution.

2006 Is the begining of the war.

oh I see now...the landing...ok got ya.

But still..who cares?

 

[Hatuey]

oh I see now...the landing...ok got ya.

But still..who cares?

The Commies? It's breaking news for them I guess.