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5 days ago · Learn how Fidel Castro led a guerrilla campaign against Batista's dictatorship in Cuba and became a communist leader. Explore the key events, dates, and outcomes of the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959.
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5 days ago · Cuban Revolution, armed uprising in Cuba that overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959. The revolution had as its genesis a failed assault on the Santiago de Cuba army barracks on July 26, 1953. That attack’s leader, Fidel Castro, went on to rule Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
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3 days ago · Emerging in the 1960s as a leading voice in support of anticolonial struggles, then continuing to play a role in the antiglobalization movement in the subsequent decades, Fidel Castro was an articulate and penetrating—if controversial—political thinker and leader, who outlasted ten US presidents.
Sep 9, 2024 · Communists in Eastern Europe struggled to comprehend the ouster of Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista and the rise of Fidel Castro in 1958-1959, writes Radoslav Yordanov on the basis of sources now available on the Wilson Center Digital Archive. Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, photographed upon arrival in Washington, DC, on April 15, 1959.
4 days ago · This database contains English translations of thousands of speeches, interviews, and press conferences given by Fidel Castro between 1959 and 1996. This material was originally collected and translated by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a U.S. government agency charged with monitoring international media.
Sep 11, 2024 · Bay of Pigs invasion, abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Giron (Giron Beach) to Cubans, on April 17, 1961, by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government and came at the height of the Cold War.
3 days ago · Among those opposing the coup was Fidel Castro, then a novice attorney who attempted to contest the coup through Cuba's judiciary. Once these efforts proved fruitless, Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led an armed attack on the Cuban military's Moncada Barracks on 26 July 1953.
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