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Granma

Cuba · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2008

Norberto Collado Abreu2 April 2008

Havana · Government / Communist Party Government

Norberto Collado Abreu, the helmsman of the Granma yacht that carried Fidel Castro from Mexico to Cuba to launch his revolution in 1956, dies in Havana

Names involved

Norberto Collado Abreu

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