Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba ... and that's when he decides to attack the Moncada Barracks." Castro persuaded university student leaders to provide him with machine ...

I n 1953, a young Fidel Castro was tried for his armed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. The attack was a dismal failure ...

Sixty-two years ago — it seems like yesterday — a band of rebels led by Fidel Castro attack the [Moncada] military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, trying to begin to overthrow the government of ...

In 1953, he helped his older brother, Fidel, plan and execute a failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba in an attempt to oust Gen Fulgencio Batista. He was sentenced to ...

Castro was arrested after his failed assault on the Moncada Barracks, and Batista pardoned ... He himself came to power through a military coup against an authoritarian president.

Indeed, the National Resistance Army (NRA) attack on Kabamba echoed Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s ...

Supporters of Sheffield Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC) gathered in the city’s Botanical Gardens for a celebratory picnic 68 years on from the storming of the Moncada Barracks. The barracks in Santiago ...

Fidel Castro, a 26-year-old lawyer angry after Batista took over the Cuban presidency in a 1952 coup, led about 150 rebels on an attack on the Moncada army barracks in eastern city of Santiago.

Moncada was the second largest military garrison in Cuba ... and that's when he decides to attack the Moncada Barracks." Castro persuaded university student leaders to provide him with machine ...