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TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0845 IN_TIME: 15:06:52 - 17:02:59 - 18:33:35 // 19:02:57 - 21:30:4 LENGTH: 03:22 SOURCES: CUBAVISION RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: Spanish/Nat XFA Men, women and children from Santa Clara in Cuba acted out a play to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution Each year a town is chosen to host the celebration, but this year three cities were chosen - Havana, Santa Clara and Pinar Del Rio Events to celebrate Cuba's biggest national holiday started in Havana on Wednesday, on the actual anniversary It's thought that three locations were chosen to capitalise on the patriotic spirit in Cuba after 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez returned to the communist island a month ago Cuban flags, along with the red and black banners of Fidel Castro's revolutionary movement, set the scene for a major speech expected from the president Posters proclaiming For Cuba, with Fidel, everyone to the plaza! were plastered across store fronts, homes and government buildings in this city of about 220-thousand people Workers finished rehabilitation work on Friday on the main plaza, which features a towering bronze statue of the revolutionary hero Ernesto Che Guevara The speech in Santa Clara is the second of the three major national events to commemorate the anniversary On July 26, 1953 Castro and his followers attacked an army barracks that launched the Cuban Revolution against the dictatorship of then-President Fulgencio Batista Although the attackers were all either killed or jailed, the movement later regained strength and triumphed on New Year's Day 1959 after Batista fled the country The first event was a march on Wednesday that drew a crowd in Havana that the government estimated at more than 1 million Castro, wearing his olive green uniform and white athletic shoes, led the three-and-a-half-mile march along Havana's Malecon coastal highway to the U-S Interests Section, the American mission The third event will be a gathering in the eastern city of Pinar del Rio on August 5 The government has not announced if Castro will speak at that event, but it is widely expected that he will The latest string of large gatherings are part of a national campaign to keep up the pressure on the United States to change its policies toward Cuba in the wake of Elian Gonzalez's return to the island last month SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Food, fuel, prime materials - all this it extremely difficult position This was the moment the American government, with repugnant opportunism, chose to try to knock the Revolution dead with its laws such as the Helms Burton law and others Many waited in vain for the news that the Revolution had collapsed but the people were immovable And this fills us with pride Nothing stopped us reaching the social conditions that we strove for - that today are the object of admiration to all those honest people in the word SUPER CAPTION: Fidel Castro, Cuban President SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) These tombs - with their presence emanate messages of support and remind us that we are not alone in this 26 July Villa Clara celebration They are with us - the dead who fell in the battle in which this heroic city freed from tyranny SUPER CAPTION: Fidel Castro, Cuban President SHOTLIST: Santa Clara, Cuba - 29 July 2000 1 Wide shot of crowds 2 Wide shot of statue of Ernesto Che Guevara 3 Fidel Castro waving flag 4 Wide shot of crowds cheering 5 Fidel Castro waving flag 6 Wide shot of the girl talking to crowd, Castro watching in front 7 Castro waving flags 8 Wide shot of crowds 9 Various of performance on stage 10 Elian Gonzalez's father and stepmother 11 SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President 12 Various of crowd cheering 13 SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President 14 Shot of people waving Cuban flags 15 Shot of statue?