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The game starts with the user joining the 82 rebels who in 1956 sailed to Cuba from Mexico aboard the Granma, the creaky and now-iconic yacht that has become synonymous with the revolution.
This road reveals traces of Cuban history long before the revolution, though. In the small town of Yara, 44km west of Bayamo, Hatuey, an aboriginal Taíno leader, was burnt at the stake by the ...
Vice President Juan Almeida, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution and a stalwart in Cuba's aging old guard, died of heart failure at age 82, state-run media said on Saturday.
Leidys María Labrador Herrera, writing for Cuba’s Granma newspaper on February 19, was recalling President Fidel Castro’s address to thousands of Cubans on that day in 2000.
Born just three weeks after Fidel Castro started his uprising by beaching an old American yacht called Granma in a mangrove swamp on Cuba’s southern shore in 1956, she had fully embraced his ...
Cuba Marks 50 Years Since 'Triumphant Revolution' Fifty years ago Thursday, the dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, clearing the way for Fidel Castro and his guerilla movement to assume power.
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Today in Cuba, the government is marking the 50th anniversary of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. It was on January 1st 1959 that Castro's guerillas ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista ...
One of the original leaders of the Cuban revolution and current vice president Juan Almeida has died of heart failure at the age of 82, state-run press reported on Saturday.