Cuba conducted its key annual celebration 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 talked about the U.S. government during the ceremony.
He claimed Washington tried to destroy Cuba and take its land.
Citizens in Havana readied for the ceremonies.
They did this despite this with serious water shortages, caused by chronic power shortages.