who died in the battle against the Constitutional Army of Cuba before 1959 or who died after Fidel Castro's rise to power. At ...

“We hope the army, through their top authorities ... The AK-47 was a personal gift to Allende from Cuba’s former mandate, Fidel Castro. The remains of Allende, Chile’s first elected ...

He sold his law books and car, recruited his brother Raul and 150-odd friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars ...

Though these ideas were approved by military leaders, the operation was ultimately rejected by President Kennedy, who ...

Fidel Castro shares at least one belief with the ... But he blames JFK for the invasion of the Bay of Pigs by a ragtag Cuban exile army: “Kennedy was humiliated by his defeat at the Bay of ...

On the eve of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution ... cutters who only worked four months out of the year -- were an army of unemployed, perpetually in debt and living on the margins of survival.

At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new ...

Summer: Batista's forces launch a last, unsuccessful push against a small guerrilla army led by Fidel castro and based in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. January 1: Revolutionary leader ...

Fidel Castro took control of Cuba ... Castro’s troops defeated the Cuban exile army. By 20th April, the exiles were either dead or in prison.