"Sixty-seven years have elapsed, and Havana still remembers the triumphant entry of Fidel Castro and his bearded revolutionaries. After departing from a military academy in the morning, a convoy of trucks advances at midday from the Malecon, traversing the city along the same original route. Riding atop the olive-green trucks are young men and women with red flags, raised fists, and shouts of Long live Fidel!"
"An experiment that, after so many decades of geopolitical balancing acts, idealism, authoritarian rule and isolation, is going through one of the most fragile and difficult periods in its history. Three gray-haired officials who have just come down from a building that still bears a sign on its roof that reads, in large red letters, Patria o Muerte (Homeland or Death), chat about the delicate moment in which this year's anniversary is being observed, barely a week after the United States' attack on Venezuela."
Havana stages annual January 8 parades reenacting Fidel Castro's triumphant entry, featuring olive-green trucks, red flags, raised fists, and crowds of public-sector workers and students. Public employees and students receive leave to celebrate the armed triumph of socialism. The Cuban experiment endures decades of idealism, authoritarian rule, isolation and geopolitical balancing, and currently faces one of its most fragile periods. Gray-haired officials invoke homeland defense amid recent regional tensions after a United States attack on Venezuela. Officials cite historical U.S. hostility, including CIA admission of at least eight attempted assassinations and Cuban intelligence claims of 638 attempts.
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