26th of July Movement organization
also: Castro's July 26th movement, M26, M26 guerrillas, M26 group, January 26th movement
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26th of July Movement documented
“But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 40:35
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▶ 40:35
But Batista's corruption and oppression increasingly lost their support. Cubans flocked to Castro's July 26th movement by the droves. It had taken this name from the date of an unsuccessful revolt that Castro had once led. The M26 guerrilla…
▶ 41:06
spread out from the Sierra, creating fronts in several parts of Cuba. Those who cared could see the handwriting on the wall. Batista was no fool of what would be his disposition. The dictator's brief appearance at his reception came around …
▶ 42:04
At first, didn't believe him. At that moment, the M26 unit closest to Havana, a column of Santa Clara under Argentine Shea Cavera, was 150 miles away. They still had a lot of fighting to do, but Batista wasn't going to hang around. Shea was…
▶ 42:34
He got the news seven hours after Batista fled. Che Guevara immediately ordered a march forward. His force arrived in Havana the next morning. He drove directly to the La Cabana Fortress, whose garrison of 15,000 men dwarfed Che's small M26…
▶ 45:04
Note, therefore, that in 1959, notwithstanding Castro's pronouncement decades later, Fidel Castro had not become a communist, nor was his January 26th movement anything associated with the Communist Party. Nor did Castro bring communism int…
▶ 46:32
explained Batista's fall by citing corruption and his consequent lack of public support. Alan Dulles is said to have taken this report and personally rewritten it. A paper Dulles forwarded to State in February of 1959, not all complimentary…
▶ 47:02
asserted that M26 group lacked dynamic leadership. He categorized it as floundering. It said that it had difficulty relating to youth and that all of the top leaders were inexperienced. Well,…