Every October 6 we Cubans remember the horrendous crime that in 1976 deprived the lives of 73 people aboard an aircraft of Cubana de Aviación airline as a result of a terrorist act.
On the plane, part of the fencing team won all the gold medals in the recently finished Central American and Caribbean Championship of that sport. The sabotage was organized by Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch Ávila at the service of the CIA.
In this way, one of the most brutal acts of terrorism executed against the Revolution took place.
The moving words expressed by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in the farewell act of mourning for the victims, held in the Plaza de la Revolución José Martí, kept the Cubans standing.
"We can not say that pain is shared. The pain multiplies. Millions of Cubans mourn today with the loved ones of the victims of the abominable crime. And when an energetic and virile people cries, injustice trembles! "
On October 6, it was declared a Day of Victims of State Terrorism, in a speech at the Open Tribune of the Revolution, in 2001, and in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the crime, Fidel said: "Our brothers dead in Barbados are no longer only martyrs; they are symbols in the fight against terrorism, they stand today as giants in that historic battle to eradicate terrorism from the face of the Earth. "
