presided over the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the assault on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago de Cuba. It was a violent act that led to the formation of the July 26th Movement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands were in the audience in a sun-splashed square outside the Moncada barracks, still visibly scarred with bullet holes from the doomed assault. The July 26 holiday is sometimes used to make ...

His life as a rebel began in 1953 with a reckless attack on the Moncada military barracks in the eastern city of Santiago. Most of his comrades were killed and Fidel and his brother Raul went 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.

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 ...

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 ...