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army in Santiago de Cuba. Castro’s plan of assault backfired, his punishment was a 15 year sentence in jail. Two years later, after being captured, Fidel got released but ended up in Mexico. In Mexico, Castro met a revolutionary named Ernesto Guevara. Guevara helped Castro to plan his return to Cuba. A year later after they met Ernesto and Fidel sailed on “Granma”

revolution. On December 2, 1956, eighty-two men including Castro and the physician Ernesto "Che" Guevara, set sail once again for the Oriente on their yacht, the Granma. The campaign was doomed from the beginning. "Nobody could navigate the boat properly, everybody was seasick, most of the supplies were jettisoned in a storm, and the expedition landed in the wrong place."(Sinclair,15) On one occasion Guevara followed the wrong star to travel North, and on another, his comrade put the only the drink they

United States. Che Guevara's speech and the Platt Amendment are two primary sources that provide insight of the United States effect on the Cuban Revolution (Keen and Haynes 2013, 401). On January 29, 1959, Che Guevara delivered the speech named, “The Social Ideals of the Rebel Army. Che Guevara met Fidel and Raul castro in Mexico City during the year of 1955. He joined the July 26 movement which was named after the attack of Moncada army barracks led by Fidel Castro. This attacked sparked a rebellion

Ernesto Guevara was, and remains to this day, a very controversial figure. To many he is a beloved demigod, and to others he is a villainous murderer. There seems to be no middle ground when discussing the man known to most people as “Che Guevara”. “The Motorcycle Diaries”, is a movie in which Che Guevara is portrayed as an intelligent, charismatic man that believed in equality for all. The movie suggests that because he is bothered by the oppression and prejudice he witnessed during his travels

Che Guevara Words without deeds are worthless! When asked about Che Guevara the first thing that is mentioned is the famous image of his face on t-shirts worn by left-leaning young adults, but did you know he was a prominent figure in the Cuban Revolution? Guevara was both a visionary and ethical leader because of his ability to lead the Cuban Revolution and because he cared about suffering. In this paper we will review how Guevara was a visionary leader through his communication, continuous engagement

Over the course of history revolutions have come and gone leaving behind different legacies. Revolutions have been driven by the desire of the people to overthrow a government in favor of a new system to bring about certain change. In theory revolutions serve to achieve the common good and not just the good of a select few. The Cuban revolution is a prime example of this, under the dictatorship of Batista there was no common good, those who were successful remained successful, and those born into

Why did the Cuban revolution of 1959 become a Marxist revolution? The Cuban Revolution of 1959 has been extraordinary in all respects. Not only the small number of men, Fidel Castro accumulated to overturn the dictatorial Fulgencio Batista was remarkable, but also the seizure of power of Castro and his 26th of July Movement differs from all other communist revolutions. While communist revolutions are usually pushed forward by the communist parties of the respective country, in this case of 1959

1956, Fidel Castro returned to Cuba aboard the boat Granma with little more than 80 insurgents and a cache of weapons near the eastern city of Manzanillo. In short order, Batista's forces killed or captured most of the attackers. But Castro, Raúl, Guevara and a handful of others were able to escape into the Sierra Maestra mountain range along the island's southeastern coast. A guerilla is a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular

Life and Death in the Andes Travel Writing Assignment Kim MacQuarrie, the author of Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries is a writer, a four-time emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, anthropologist, and the author. MacQuarrie spent time living in Peru and consequently wrote four books on the country, and the events that took place and significant figures who resided there. With a large amount of time being spent in Latin America, he was able to view

The history of Spanish culture and their historic events have been captured through art for centuries. Photography is one form of art that has documented and symbolized historic events that are still used today as historical documents. A Cuban photographer, Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, also known as Alberto Korda, famously documented the events of the Cuban Revolution. Alberto Korda became the world’s most famous Cuban photographer for his photography, documenting history of the revolution with over 55