Cuban government recalls the first Central Committee of the Communist Party

Through his Twitter account, the head of Government recalled that in addition to the formation of the highest political instance, that day the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro read the farewell letter of the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and proclaimed the creation from Granma newspaper. On October 3, 1965 at the former Chaplin theater in the capital, today Karl Marx, during the closing speech of the Congress of the United Party of the Socialist Revolution of Cuba, the then Prime Minister Fidel Castro urged the union of all political forces and social sectors in the Communist Party of Cuba. That night, in addition, he read the farewell letter that the revolutionary Che Guevara left before leaving for Bolivia, where he continued the struggle for liberation and vindication of the peoples of America. During his speech, Fidel Castro reported on the merger of the newspapers Revolución and Hoy into a single official organ of the Communist Party under the name of Granma, in homage to the yacht that brought the architects of the Revolution to Cuba in 1956. On October 4, the first issue of this newspaper was printed, with a circulation of 498 thousand 784 copies. jha / idm / gdc