Word: moncada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 26, 1953, a ragtag band of 160 Cubans tried to trigger an uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista by attacking Santiago de Cuba's Moncada Army barracks. The chancy venture was squashed, and half of the partisans were killed. Among those imprisoned was 25-year-old Fidel Castro, a lawyer turned revolutionist, who drew a 15-year sentence. In an act more merciful than wise, Batista granted Castro amnesty after only two years. In 1956, after a brief Mexican exile, Fidel was back in Cuba with another guerrilla band; but this time he was not to be caught...
Cuba took a holiday last week to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Moncada barracks raid. Among the observers at the festivities was TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan, who toured Castro's island fiefdom to see how Cuba has changed in the decade since Fidel took control. His report...
...Cover) It was Fidel Castro's first major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd of 50,000 in Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, meandering for hours about everything and nothing - poverty, classroom shortages, taxes, new houses, and the problem of bureaucrats who do "absolutely nothing." Then, amid the chatter, he dropped two electric statements that instantly set telephones jangling from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives...
Castro was in Santiago de Cuba to celebrate the July 26, 1953 attack on Moncada Barracks that signaled the start of his revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista. He was determined to put on a show for the 30 U.S. newsmen invited over to view the proceedings, and so he did. Carpenters had nailed together triple-deck bunks and thrown up small tent cities to handle the 100,000 campesinos trucked in for the occasion. Streets were hung with posters and gaily colored banners. All day and night, reported TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold, streets were clogged with peasants in gay carnival...
According to Draper, Castro's attack of July 26, 1953, on the Moncada barracks launched the first revolution, which was led from the start by upper and middle class Cubans. They organized and comprised most of the membership of the principal revolutionary organization, the 26th of July Movement. Their program was radical, but democratic, pledging the restoration of the 1940 Constitution. The armed bands in the mountains from 1957 to 1959 were neither a peasant nor a proletarian army. They never totaled more than a few hundred men, who goaded Batista into initiating a campaign of arbitrary terror that turned...