Word: moncada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Petty Putsch." At that, the Communists almost missed the boat with Fidel. When Castro led a gang of young rebels in a foolhardy frontal assault on Batista's Moncada barracks in 1953, the old party-liners called it a "petty-bourgeois putsch." In 1957. when Castro went into the Sierra Maestra hills to start his guerrilla war, they again dismissed him as an ineffectual "adventurer"-a Communist phrase for amateurs. But Castro survived and grew stronger, and the possibility of an alliance began to dawn on both sides. Though Castro was a hero in the hills with great popularity...
...pastoral letter was the third time old (76) Pérez Serantes had spoken out to lead the Cuban church against Castro as once he led it for Castro. Seven years ago, after the unsuccessful July 26 assault on Moncada Barracks, the courageous churchman had gone into the hills to plead with Batista's executioners to spare the life of a young rebel named Fidel Castro. But as Castro turned from liberator to dictator, Pérez Serantes was quick to acknowledge his original error. With him against Castro were Monsignor Eduardo Boza Masvidal, rector of Villanueva University...
After young Rebel Fidel Castro led a suicidal attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's bristling Moncada barracks in 1953, the man who saved his life was Santiago Archbishop Enrique Pérez Serantes, 77. While survivors of the attack were being hunted down and shot on sight, the archbishop, an old friend of the family, rushed to get guarantees from authorities that Castro would not be harmed if he turned himself in. Last week Castro's old friend outspokenly condemned the Castro government's drift toward Communism...
Fidel Castro and Anastas Mikoyan could hardly have been closer. They flew around Cuba in a huge blue-and-white Russian-marked helicopter. Castro showed Mikoyan the tobacco lands in the west, the Isle of Pines, a government agriculture cooperative, the Moncada barracks in Santiago, where Castro's revolution began, even the foothills of the Sierra Maestra, scene of Castro's insurrection. Mikoyan kept murmuring: "The work of the revolution is very good." One day he took time out to call on Ernest Hemingway at his country house outside Havana, presented the writer with...