Word: bayamo
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...casket decked with the rebel flag of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Showing their strength, the guerrilleros swept down from their mountain hideout and attacked military posts at Bueycito and Minas, carried off arms, ammunition and supplies. Then they set two bridges afire on the highway between Bayamo and Manzanillo, and the next day engaged Batista troops at Peladero. In Santiago the funeral turned into a spontaneous general strike, spreading to neighboring towns. The big Oriente Maceo sugar mill was burned to the ground...
...earned by Oriente exports (sugar, coffee) goes largely for projects in Havana. Such inequity traditionally spurs Oriente men to rebellion; both of Cuba's wars for independence against Spain began in Oriente, and the first stanza of the Cuban national anthem honors revolutionaries of the Oriente town of Bayamo...