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Fidel Castro
Ruz |
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Great
crises always deliver great solutions |
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Fidel
Castro's Memorial speech of Che Guevara |
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| August
13, 1926 |
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Angel
Castro and Lina Ruz gave birth to a child named Fidel Castro Ruz
in the ranch "Finca las Manacas" near the village of
Biran. |
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| October
12, 1948 |
Fidel
Castro Ruz and Birta Diaz Balart were married in the Iglesia de
Nuestra Senora de la Caridad in Banes. |
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| July
26, 1953 |
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Fidel
Castro leads an armed attack on the Moncada army garrison in
Santiago de Cuba, launching the revolutionary struggle to
overthrow the Batista regime. The attack fails and Batista’s
troops massacre more than 50 captured combatants. Castro and
other survivors are soon captured and imprisoned. |
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| 1954 |
Fidel
Castro and Birta Diaz Balart divorced. Birta remarried and moved
to Spain. |
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| October
1953 |
Fidel was
brought with the other Rebels, who attacked the Moncada Barracks
to the prison "Presidio Modelo" in Nueva Gerona. |
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| February
1954 |
During a
prison visit Fidel was heckling Batista, for which Fidel was put
into solitary confinement. |
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| May
15, 1955 |
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Fidel
was set free with the other Moncada attackers from the prison
"Presidio Modelo" in Nueva Gerona. They went by the
ferry "El Pinero" to the mainland of Cuba. |
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| July
7, 1955 |
Fidel
Castro arrives in Mexico with the goal of organizing an armed
expedition to Cuba. |
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| November
25, 1956 |
Fidel
Castro and eighty-two combatants sail for Cuba aboard the small
cabin cruiser Granma, leaving from Tuxpan in Mexico. |
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| December
2, 1956 |
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The
Granma reaches Cuba at Las Coloradas beach in Oriente Province. |
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| December
5, 1956 |
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The rebel
combatants are surprised by Batista’s troops at Alegría de
Pío and dispersed. A majority of the guerrillas are either
murdered or captured. |
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| December
21, 1956 |
Guevara’s
group reunites with Fidel Castro. At this moment there are left
only 15 fighters in the Rebel Army. |
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| January
8, 1959 |
Fidel
Castro arrives in Havana, greeted by hundreds of thousands of
people. |
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| February
16, 1959 |
Fidel
Castro becomes prime minister. |
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| July
16–17, 1959 |
Castro
resigns as Prime Minister because of government crisis stemming
from Urrutia’s opposition to revolution’s measures; in
response, a massive popular outpouring forces Urrutia to resign
from presidency and he is replaced by Osvaldo Dorticós. |
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| July
26, 1959 |
Castro
returns to the post as Prime Minister. |
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| April
16, 1961 |
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At a mass
rally to honor the victims of the previous day’s attacks,
Fidel Castro proclaims socialist character of the Cuban
revolution; Cuba is put on alert in anticipation of the
impending attack. |
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| April
17–19, 1961 |
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1,500
Cuban-born mercenaries, organized and backed by the United
States, invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs on the southern coast.
The aim was to establish a “provisional government” to
appeal for direct U.S. intervention. They are defeated within 72
hours, with the last ones surrendering at Playa Girón (Girón
Beach), which has come to be the name used by the Cubans for the
battle. Fidel Castro leads the counter-attack from the
sugar mill at Jaguey Grande. |
