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Cuban leader Fidel Castro 1926 established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military tyranny of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
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The revolution began in 1952, when former army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista seized power during a hotly contested election. Batista had been president from 1940-1944 and ran for president in 1952.
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The cuban revolution started in 1953 and went into 1956
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by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
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Castro had come to power with the support of most Cuban city dwellers on the basis of his promises to restore the 1940 constitution, create an honest administration
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In 1954 Che met cuban revolutionary fidel castro and his brother raul while in mexico guevara became part of Fidel castros efforts to overdo the batista government in cuba.
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45 years of unremitting US propaganda against Fidel Castro, the Cuban government and Cuban society.
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Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Birán, a small town in eastern Cuba. His father was a wealthy Spanish sugarcane farmer who first came to the island during the Cuban War of Independence 1895 1898.
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The Cuban Revolution 1953 trough 1959 was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castros 26th of July Movement and its allies against the US-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista
