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Fulgencio Batista was originally the ruler of Cuba. Fidel Castro began an uprising against him by attacking the military barracks at Santiago de Cuba.
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Fidel Castro makes the "History Will Absolve Me" speech in his own defense against the charges brought on him after the attack on the Moncada Barracks.During the speech some of the things he said we're that what he did to Fulgencio Batista was the right thing to do.
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Fidel Castro and his brother headed off to Mexico. There they meet Che Guevara. He helped stir them up to continue their cause.
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After Fidel Casto's attack, he was defeated and arrested. Castro was to spend 15 years in prison. Fortunately he was released on 1955 by Batista in show of supreme power.
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Fidel Castro, with some 80 insurgents including Raúl Castro, his brother, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos set sail from Mexico for Cuba on the yacht named Granma.
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His second attack was on December 2, 1956, he was defeated again by Batista's army and fled to the Sierra Maestra. Finally, his third attack, with the aid of their rebellious Cubans, Castro made Batista flee the country.
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Over the next two decades more than one million Cubans will emigrate. Many are businessmen and professionals, including more than 50 percent of Cuba's doctors and teachers in the first two years of the revolution because of Fidel's government. Even today, people are still trying to flee Cuba and reunite with their family.
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At first the United States supported Castro but when he embraced communism, the U.S. attempted to overthrow him. On April 17, 1961, at Cuba's Bay of Pigs, there was a battle between U.S. sponsored Cuban exiles and the Cuban armed forces.
