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Havana - The Federation of University
Students (FEU) of Cuba is to pay tribute
Friday to the martyrs of the 52nd
anniversary historic attack on the
Presidential Palace and the national radio
station "Radio Reloj" in Havana.
On March 13, 1957, a group of youth from the
Revolutionary Directorate, led by student
leader Jose Antonio Echeverria, attacked
those facilities to topple the tyrant
Fulgencio Batista and appropriate the media.
The action failed and several students were
murdered by the Batista police in the area
around Havana University.
Today's homage will start with a traditional
rally in the Matanzas municipality of
Cardenas, from the Echeverria birthplace to
the cemetery where his remains lie.
FEU national president Adalberto Hernandez
stated that higher education students will
lay a wreath where the Matanza youth and
some of his comrades-in-arms were killed.
Although the March 13 events did not reach
their aims, they shook the tyranny and
increased people's efforts toward the
revolutionary triumph on January 1, 1959.
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