Juan Almeida Bosque1955
Juan Almeida Bosque joins Castro's exile movement in Mexico after his release from prison under the 1955 political amnesty.
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Juan Almeida Bosque joins Castro's exile movement in Mexico after his release from prison under the 1955 political amnesty.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the failed July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
Raúl Castro befriends Ernesto Guevara in Mexico City and helps bring him into Fidel Castro's circle of Cuban revolutionaries.
Raúl Castro maintains contact in Mexico with Nikolai Leonov, then a junior Soviet embassy official whom Castro had first met during travel in 1953.
Camilo Cienfuegos reaches Mexico and joins the Cuban exile group preparing an armed expedition against the Batista government.
The 26th of July Movement, led by Fidel Castro, becomes the dominant revolutionary force that helps overthrow Fulgencio Batista's government in January 1959.
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