Cuba conducted its major annual commemoration July 26 event in Santiago de Cuba.
This highlights 73 years in the wake of the 1953 Moncada Barracks attack.
Raúl Castro was missing.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel talked about the U.S. government during the ceremony.
He claimed Washington attempted to devastate Cuba and take its land.
Locals in Havana got ready for the ceremonies.
They did this nevertheless with serious water problems, caused by chronic power shortages.