Cuba conducted its big annual commemoration July 26 event in Santiago de Cuba.
This underscores 73 years following the 1953 Moncada Barracks attack.
Raúl Castro was missing.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed the U.S. government at the event.
He claimed Washington sought to devastate Cuba and seize it.
Citizens in Havana got ready for the ceremonies.
They did this still with serious water shortages, caused by persistent power shortages.