With the rebels winning major military confrontations, they publish dissident newspapers and set up agrarian reform councils. Senior Castro allies are killed in Havana.ġ958: The Cuban army launches a major offensive against Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains. US press reports indicate an American-trained force will hunt down Castro. The government increases repression and arrests and/or kills those suspected of colluding with the rebels. He later arrives in the Sierra Maestra mountains and wages a guerrilla campaign against the Batista government.ġ957: With a small supply of weapons, Castro’s followers begin to attack oil facilities, government buildings, and radio stations. Che Guevara joins his cause.ġ956: Castro launches a revolutionary war from outside Cuba. May 15: Castro is given amnesty and released from prison.
#TIMELINE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRIAL#
October 31: The Cuban Communist Party is outlawed.ġ954: Castro’s ‘History will Absolve Me’ speech during his trial becomes a rebel manifesto and is spread throughout the country.įidel Castro during an address in Cuba after Batista was forced to flee įebruary 25: Batista becomes president following elections.Īpril: The CIA sets up the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities in Cuba. October 6: The 26 survivors of the rebel attack are found guilty and imprisoned. July 26: Castro leads a ragtag group of 160 rebels in an attack against the Moncada military base in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba’s second-largest city. Economic strife fuels revolutionary fervour.ġ933: A revolutionary junta led by military officer Fulgencio Batista seizes control of Cuba.ġ934: The US ambassador to Cuba reports that the new government is very unpopular “with all the better classes” and supported by the military only.ġ944: Batista steps down and a civilian government takes control.ġ948: Fidel Castro, a young student with revolutionary zeal, participates in an uprising in Colombia.ġ952: Batista, who had been elected to the Cuban senate, seizes power, suspends the 1940 constitution and cancels elections. While the Cuban Revolution did not take place until 1959, it was events which preceded it that fuelled the popular disenfranchisement that gave rise to rebel figures such as Fidel Castro.īelow is a brief timeline of Cuba’s revolution in the making.ġ898: The US takes control of Cuba after Spain is defeated in the Spanish-American War and cedes all claims to the island.ġ902: Although Cuba declares independence it remains a US protectorate.ġ905: US companies buy millions of dollars worth of Cuban land.ġ905-1929: The US military intervenes several times to put down coups, uprisings and facilitate elections.Ĭhe Guevara joins the rebels after Fidel Castro’s release from prison ġ925: The Cuban Communist party is established.ġ929: Following the stock market crash, the price of sugar, a main export, falls. They pointed to the fact that US firms controlled majority stakes in Cuba’s mineral wealth, its utility system and influence in the sugar trade.
Many of the island’s revolutionaries and dissidents viewed Havana’s close ties and what they called subservience to Washington as running counter to national interests and aspirations. Washington has played an integral role in the internal politics of Cuba since US military forces defeated Spain in the Spanish-American war. Cuba’s defiance of the US has helped to make Fidel Castro and Che Guevara folk heroes
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