Although Castro's assault failed, storming the Moncada Barracks on July 26, ... Fidel readily admitted to leading the Moncada attack, and dramatically pronounced: "You may condemn me.

Seventy-one years ago on July 26, 1953, 136 young Cuban revolutionaries led by 26-year-old Commandant Fidel Castro launched a daring assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba. The attack ...

Cuba faces another moment of profound historical significance demanding unity and steadfastness. As the nation commemorates ...

After young Rebel Fidel Castro led a suicidal attack on Dictator Fulgencio Batista's bristling Moncada barracks in 1953, the man who saved his life was Santiago Archbishop Enrique ...

It’s the day the Cuban government celebrates the birth of the 1959 Cuban revolution, the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s 1953 failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, his first salvo against the ...

Standout relics include blood-stained uniforms of the fallen from the Santiago de Cuba Moncada Barracks attack, maps that were used for navigation during the war and bullet holes from an attempted ...

On what happened on July 26, 1953. Sixty-two years ago — it seems like yesterday — a band of rebels led by Fidel Castro attack the [Moncada] military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, trying to ...

Castro uttered those unforgettable, dense and pro­found words on 16th October, 1953 as part of his defence when he was charged for treason after his attack on Moncada Barracks.

Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago.

HAVANA — Cuba on Friday commemorated the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s failed attack on a military army barracks that is considered the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. President Raul ...

Fidel Castro's first attempted revolution in Cuba on 26 July 1953. His attacks on military barracks in the east of the country failed, but marked the beginning of his career as a revolutionary.

Cuban President Raul Castro assured his people on Friday that a transfer of power to younger generations had begun, in a televised address marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cuban ...