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    TIMELINE OF THE... CUBAN REVOLUTION

    Mar 18, 2021 3 minutes
    “THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN GUEVARA AND FIDEL CASTRO CHANGES THE COURSE OF THE REVOLUTION”

    1952

    RESISTING BATISTA

    Military dictator Fulgencio Batista takes power and leads a corrupt, pro-American regime that is vigorously opposed by various groups. Two socialist brothers, Fidel and Raúl Castro, form a paramilitary organisation called ‘The Movement’ and begin arming and recruiting over 1,000 disaffected followers in Havana.

    26 July 1953

    MONCADA BARRACKS 01

    Fidel Castro leads 135 Movement revolutionaries in an attack against a barracks that is garrisoned by 400 government soldiers. The attack

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