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Cuba marks 60th anniv of revolution's start
Cuba on Friday commemorated the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castroâs failed attack on a military army barracks that is considered the beginning of the Cuban Revolution
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uba on Friday commemorated the 60th anniversary of FidelCastro's failed attack on a military army barracks that is considered thebeginning of the Cuban Revolution.
President Raul Castro was expected to speak at the ceremony in the eastern city of Santiago. Thousands were in the audience in a sun-splashed square outside the Moncada barracks, still visibly scarred with bullet holes from the doomed assault.
The July 26 holiday is sometimes used to make major announcements.
Raul Castro, Fidel's younger brother, took up the reins of the country in 2006 and is pushing a series of social and economic reforms, including relaxed restrictions on foreign travel and a limited opening for small private and cooperative enterprise on the island
