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1966 March, he had to leave Congo and went back to Cuba ...  1966 March, he had to leave Congo and went back to Cuba. ... Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist, who became a hero to the New ... and when Castro came to power, he served as Cuba's minister of industry (1961-65).
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Che Guevara facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Guevara, Ch (Ernesto): 1928-1967: Revolutionary Leader ... head of Cuban Ministry of Industry, 1961-65; revolutionary leader in Bolivia, 1966-67. .... as a revolutionary in earnest when he signed up with Castro to serve as physician for the...
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War - ChickenBones  Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War is Guevara's unadorned memoirs ... Castro came to power, he served as Cuba's Minister of Industry (1961-65).
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Che Guevara - Infoplease  Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson ... From 196165, he served as Cuba's minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an...
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Ernesto Che Guevara biography - Cuba Politics News - Havana ...  Nov 26, 2005 ... Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist, who became a ... came to power, he served as Cuba's minister of industry (1961-65).
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Gone fishing... Cuban style - BBC News  Jun 16, 2007 ... Fifty seven years ago, the author Ernest Hemingway inaugurated a big ... American novelist Ernest Hemingway (R), stands next to Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro (L) won the Hemingway (R) fishing competition in 1960 ... fishing and you might imagine huge, gleaming boats with names like...
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Castro, Fidel, 1926- - the Civil Rights Digital Library  Aug 28, 2016 ... "Political leader of Cuba (from 1959) who transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a...
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Che Guevara - Wikipedia  Ernesto "Che" Guevara commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ... Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in...
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Biography of Jos Mart - Latin American History - About.com  Jos Mart was a Cuban revolutionary. He died in combat against Spanish forces in 1895 and is today revered as a Cuban national hero.
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Museum of the Revolution - ItchyFeetTraveler  In fact, decorating the Presidential Palace was one of Louis Tiffany's last major complete ... Today we know it as the Museum of the Revolution (Spanish Museo de la Revolucin). ... by student revolutionaries to assassinate dictator Fulgencio Batista, the president ... In Cuba he is called the Father of the Cuban Revolution.
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Jos Mart - Wikipedia  Jos Julin Mart Prez (January 28, 1853  May 19, 1895) was a Cuban national hero and an .... Mart had a precocious desire for the independence and freedom of Cuba. He started writing poems about this vision, while, at the same time,...
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Che Guevara - Military Leader - Biography.com  Jul 13, 2016 ... Born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928, Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna ... elsewhere, including in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed in 1967. ... Minister. In January 1959 Fidel Castro took control of Cuba and placed ... By 1965, with the Cuban economy in shambles, Guevara left his post to...
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US v. Cuba (1960- : Castro) - Peterson Institute for International ...  US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba (except medicine, food), ... Assistance Act of 1961 banning aid to countries permitting their .... Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announces that he will ... sugar in 1993, down from 13 million tons of oil in 1990 and 10 .... recovered in the EU if a successful American claimant has.
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Manuel Urrutia Lle - Wikipedia  Manuel Urrutia Lle (December 8, 1901  5 July 1981) was a liberal Cuban lawyer and politician. Urrutia campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and the second presidency of Fulgencio Batista during the 1950s, before serving as president in the first revolutionary government of 1959. ... The Cuban Revolution gained victory on January 1, 1959, and Urrutia...
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Fidel Castro | political leader of Cuba | Britannica.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... ... transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. ... Castro's main activity at the university was politics, and in 1947 he ..... became a symbol of political revolution in the Western Hemisphere.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins - Apr 17, 1961 - HISTORY.com  ... the CIA to train and arm a force of Cuban exiles for an armed attack on Cuba. ... On April 17, 1961, around 1,200 exiles, armed with American weapons and using American landing craft, waded ashore at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. The hope was that the exile force would serve as a rallying point for the Cuban citizenry, who...
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Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution - Wikipedia  The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of ... Renaming his group the "26th of July Movement" (MR-26-7), Castro was ..... Guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra: 195658[edit].
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PDF-1 - RUcore - Rutgers University  Sep 27, 1999 ... Cuba: A Materialist-Feminist Perspective on the Socialist Project ... gender equity as women's liberation within Cuba since 1959, I note ...... Revolutionary Unit (serving peasant women), Women's ...... and province, winning 6.9% of 151 ...... to an earlier story of the Mariana Grajales Platoon, an all women.
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Museum of the Revolution Cuba - My Cuba Visit  Of all the Havana museums, the Museo de la Revolution (Museum of the Revolution), ... in the former palace of dictator Fulgencio Batista, leader of Cuba in the years ... The presidential palace housed Cuba's leaders from the 1920s until 1959. ... to house a museum of the revolution that altered the course of Cuban history.
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Biography of Jos Mart - Latin American History - About.com  Jos Mart was a Cuban patriot, freedom fighter and poet. ... Jos was born in Havana in 1853 to Spanish parents Mariano Mart Navarro and Leonor Prez...
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Jose Marti - New World Encyclopedia  Jos Julin Mart y Prez (January 28, 1853  May 19, 1895), better known as Jos Mart, was .... Jos Mart is often called the "Apostle of Cuban Independence".