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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Cuban Revolution remains a movement of young people, President Raul Castro said on Friday during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of an attack on a military barracks which is considered ...

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.

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 ...