Multitudinal parades took place in all Cuba for the International Workers Day’s. Workers, students, housewives and retired workers, massed in the main plazas to join Cuba’s struggle against terrorism and in demand of justice for the Five Cubans incarcerated in U.S. jails.
Cuban’s condemnation of the release of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, the mastermind of the sabotage of the Cubana de Aviación passenger plane in 1976 that killed all 73 people on board and the endorsement to more reflections from President Fidel Castro on the importance of undertaking an energy revolution at global level in order to protect the planet’s natural resources and to prevent foodstuffs being used for fuel production, those were the main motivations of them.
The central parade, in Havana, filled the historic José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, headed by Raúl Castro, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Salvador Valdés Mesa, general secretary of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unionists, culminated with 50 thousand Cuban young people, fruit and continuity of the Revolution.
1,645 invited representatives and trade union leaders from 74 countries were present. They included young people who participated in the International Youth in Solidarity with the Five Conference that just concluded in Havana. Relatives of the anti-terrorists imprisoned in the United States observed the support of an entire people for the liberation of their loved ones.