Fidel Castro Attacks Moncada Barracks

On this day, Fidel Castro and a small group of revolutionaries carried out an armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. A simultaneous attack was carried out by Raúl Martínez Ararás on the Carlos M. de Cespedes Barracks in Bayamo under Castro’s orders. Although both attacks failed and most of the revolutionaries were either killed in the attack, executed or imprisoned, the action is generally accepted as the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Castro adopted the date of the attack as the name for his revolutionary movement: Movimiento 26 Julio (abbreviated as M-26-7). In 1955, the Cuban Congress passed a bill granting general amnesty to political prisoners and Castro was freed. The Movimiento 26 Julio eventually toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista on 1 January 1959.

Read Bob Lynn’s short story “Destination”
about the attack on the Moncada Barracks HERE

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