Cuba marks revolution with military parade for Fidel Castro

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News ID: 7016
Publish Date: 21:19 - 02 January 2017
Cuba paid tribute to late leader Fidel Castro on Monday with a military parade to mark the 58th anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power.
Cuba marks revolution with military parade for Fidel CastroCastro, died on November 25 at age 90.

Cuba marks the anniversary with a military parade every year -- though this year soldiers marched without their equipment.

Tens of thousands of soldiers, militia members, students and workers marched at Revolution Square in Havana, AFP reported.

In keeping with his wishes, Cuba's legislature, the National Assembly of People's Power, unanimously passed a law last month banning monuments in his honor and infrastructure named for him.


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