October, 2025. – On a similar date in 2010, with the signing of Decree-Law No. 279 approved by the Council of State of Cuba, it is decided to officially declare 6 October as the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism, in which tribute is paid to the more than three thousand 400 compatriots who died as a result of US aggression.
This date is chosen to commemorate the abominable crime that was committed on this day of the year 1976, when it was destroyed in flight by a terrorist attack, an aircraft of Cubana de Aviación in which 73 innocent people lost their lives, whose authors, Luis Posada Carriles (1928-2018) and Orlando Bosch (1926-2011), had proven links with the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and enjoyed impunity and protection in North American territory.
Victims of this aggression provoked international repudiation, especially in Cuba, were the 24 members of the youth fencing team who returned to their country after competing successfully in the IV Central American and Caribbean Championships in that sport, held in Venezuela; In total, 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese and 5 Koreans were killed.
The crime in Barbados was not the only act of State terrorism suffered by this Antillean archipelago; the document Demanda del pueblo cubano al gobierno estadounidense por daños económicos attests that since 1959 they have been organized, executed and financed thousands of acts of sabotage including military, biological, psychological, diplomatic, media and espionage attacks and attempts to assassinate leaders, in addition to the systematic escalation of the 60-year economic blockade.
The Decree-Law of the Council of State provides that every 6 October the flag of the lone star shall be raised to half-mast, at the established time, in the civil entities, military institutions and Cuban diplomatic and consular missions abroad
