Cuba to move of key Communist Summit

Cuba opened a Congress of the Communist Party crucial Saturday with a parade of military and civilian mass during the 50 years since the defeat of exiles backed by the CIA to the Bay of pigs, once again celebrated as a triumph of landmark on the powerful neighbor to the North of the island.

Officials have draped huge Cuban flags of Government and other buildings; tanks to practice for the big event were rumbling through the streets of the city and military planes swept the sky. Ramparts of seaside Havana guns echoed periodically throughout the city.

Hundreds of thousands of people - of the aging General of factory workers - are expected to March through the capital. These shows of nationalism are one of the things that made the best Cuba with participants emerged off the coast and a fleet of Soviet buses mobilized to them from ferry across the island.

The festivities Saturday at the Plaza of the revolution, a vast expanse of concrete where an iconic sculpture of Ernesto "che" Guevara looks down on the building of the Ministry of the Interior.

The Communist Party newspaper Granma reported that tens of thousands of young people coexist at the rear of the parade, as a demonstration of the continuity of the revolution of 1959 Fidel and Raul Castro.

Continuity is a theme important to Cuban officials these days. President Raul Castro is 79 and his brother Fidel is 84.

Raul has recognized that the collection of this year, the Communist Party is likely to be the last overseen by the brothers and those who fought with them, half a century ago. In speech after speech, he regretted that the time that allowed the revolutionary generation is short, but the work required to develop the economy of Cuba on the huge runway.

Since the accession to the Presidency in 2008 permanently, Raul gave tens of thousands of hectares of fallow Government to small farmers, opened a limited quantity of free enterprise economy and gradually remove some of the generous health and that Cuban food subsidies have come to expect from the State in exchange for working for extremely low wages.