Ernesto "Che" Guevara31 December 1958
Radio Rebelde broadcast the first reports that Guevaras column had taken Santa Clara on New Years Eve 1958
Argentina · Politics / 26th of July Movement. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Radio Rebelde broadcast the first reports that Guevaras column had taken Santa Clara on New Years Eve 1958
Guevara directs his "suicide squad" in the attack on Santa Clara that turned out to be one of the decisive events of the Cuban revolution. Guevara directs his "suicide squad" in the attack on Santa Clara, that became the final decisive military victory of the revolution
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