In yet another demonstration of the unity, firmness, and principles that characterize the children of this city, and of the entire province of Sancti Spíritus, students, workers, and the general public will gather today at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune to reject the U.S. government's maneuver to judicialize Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Revolution.

Right in the Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia Revolution Square—a quintessential witness to transcendental moments in local and national history—the people of Sancti Spíritus will also back the Declaration of the Cuban Revolutionary Government and the unwavering decision to defend the peace and sovereignty of a country that always “embraces” solidarity and humanism.

The rally will serve as a space to once again denounce the impact of Washington's measures on the lives of those who, 130 years after the fall in battle of the hero of the three wars of independence, continue to adopt the mandate to keep marching forward despite oil blockades, threats, defamatory campaigns, and economic strangulation.

On May 20, the United States Department of Justice formalized an indictment against the Army General regarding the shootdown of two light aircraft that violated the island's airspace in February 1996. Cuban authorities consider this act entirely devoid of legal, political, and moral foundation, viewing it as another addition to a long list of aggressions against the largest of the Antilles.

According to a brief chronology of Raúl's visits to Sancti Spíritus published by the digital newspaper Escambray, on October 7, 1978, he presided over the ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the constitution of the Northern Front of Las Villas in Yaguajay. Just a week later, he did the same for the two-decade anniversary of the Las Villas Front in El Pedrero, located in the municipality of Fomento.

Among his most remembered journeys are those he undertook on June 5, 6, and 7, 1985, through the eight municipalities of this central region, as well as on October 28, 1989, when he attended the inauguration of the Camilo Cienfuegos National Museum in the northern part of the province. He was also present at the main national commemorations for July 26 in both 2016 and 2024, held on the very same stage that will host the Anti-Imperialist Tribune this Monday.