Cuba has celebrated the 60th anniversary of its communist revolution with its leader Raul Castro criticising the United States for returning to an outdated path of confrontation with the island nation.
Raul Castro, who stepped down as president in April but
remains the leader of the Communist Party until 2021, spoke on Tuesday
in Santiago de Cuba at the grave of his brother Fidel Castro, Cuba's revolutionary leader who died in 2016.
Clad in military fatigues and cap, the 87-year-old Castro
said that Cuba had proven throughout six decades of revolution it could
not be intimidated by threats. Instead, it remained open, he said, to
peaceful and respectful coexistence.
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew a US-backed authoritarian leader Fulgencio Batista and installed a Communist-run country on the doorstep of the United States, setting the scene for decades of Cold War hostility.
Currently, Cuba remains one of only a handful of communist states left in the world, and has been under a US economic embargo since 1962.
Abroad, Cuba's government has faced heavy criticism for its authoritarian nature, intolerance of opposition, and persecution of detractors.
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