Santiago de Cuba.– More than 300,000 Santiago residents paid tribute to Comandante en Jefe Fidel on behalf of all Cuba, demonstrating that a year after his death, his work and example live on stronger than ever.
The experience put into practice experimentally in the province of Matanzas shows the value as a form of government based on the system of participatory democracy. On October 31, 1976, the People's Power as an organizational form of political leadership extends to the entire country.
Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary Of The Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, was present at the main act commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Che and his companions began at the mausoleum erected in his honor in Santa Clara.