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Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba’s Revolution Day (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Cuba's President Raul Castro, front left, and Venezuela's Vice-President Rafael Ramirez applaud during a rally marking the Cuba's Revolution Day in Santa Clara, Cuba, Monday, July 26, 2010. Monday's celebrations commemorate the date in 1953 when the Castros led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the eastern city of Santiago and a smaller military outpost in the nearby city of Bayamo. The operation failed but Cubans consider it the beginning of the revolution that culminated with dictator Fulgencio Batista's ouster on New Year's Day 1959. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba’s Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs.


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