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The ship Granma arrived on the coast of Cuba with guerrillas who started the revolution

68
years ago

02 December 1956,

The ship Granma arrived on the coast of Cuba with guerrillas who initiated the revolution. A few days earlier a group of 82 people, led by Fidel Castro, left Mexico to fight the dictator Baptista, protected by the United States. They enter Mount Sierra Maestra. Besides Castro, Ernesto Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos were present, to mention two others. With two years of struggle they achieved the adhesion of the citizens and with the beginning of the year 1959 they achieved victory.

Source:

Rafael Rojas, History of the Cuban Revolution (Turner).

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