According to the agenda, a commemoration act of that sabotage that killed 73 people, 57 of them Cubans, mostly members of the junior fencing team returning from the Central American and Caribbean Championship, Venezuela, was held there.
In addition, 11 Guyanese people and five North Korean citizens perished in the bombing of a Cubana de Aviacion airplane, some minutes after taking off from Barbados, which fell off the coast of that country.
Cuba has denounced in several international scenarios that the bombing was carried out by agents of the US Central Intelligence Agency, who orchestrated the attack and placed two bombs.
Venezuelans, Hernan Ricardo and Freddy Lugo, placed the explosives inside the airplane ordered by Cuban-born terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, who masterminded the crime from Caracas.
The perpetrators of that event were sentenced to prison, although those who hatched the attack never received any punishment for such acts.
In 2010, the Council of State of Cuba established this date as the Day of the Victims of State Terrorism, in constant remembrance of those caused by the crime of Barbados.
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