Cuban Freedom Motorcade Remade

By Amauris Betancourt.

The Motorcade of Freedom, 50 years after driving through the present-day province of Holguín, is back in the news.

Commander In Chief Fidel Castro Ruz headed then on January 1959 amid the popular happiness after the victory against Fulgencio Batista's tyranny; Major general Antonio Enrique Luzón Batle, hero of the Republic of Cuba, heads it now. He was then chief of the Column 17 that surrounded the Holguín’s dictatorship Seventh Regiment.

50 representatives of many Cuban social branches arrived downtown to meet in front of the national monument La Periquera History Museum in the Calixto García central park, from whose balcony the leader of the Cuban Revolution addressed Holguín people the first time 50 years now next February.