Amnesty
Grants amnesty to surviving Moncada prisoners.
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1955 in Cuba
Explore 17 historical events and records for Cuba in 1955.
Historical records for Cuba in 1955
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May
Amnesty
Is released from prison under Batista's amnesty.
Amnesty
Is released with other Moncada prisoners.
Political Amnesty
Almeida is released with other Moncada prisoners under Batista's May 1955 political amnesty.
Political Amnesty
Fidel Castro is released from prison under Batista's political amnesty after serving about twenty-two months following the Moncada attack.
Political Amnesty
Raúl Castro is released from prison under the May 1955 political amnesty granted to surviving participants in the Moncada attack.
Arrest of Fidel Alejandro Castro
Castro is released due to a general amnesty from Batista
July
Exile of Fidel Alejandro Castro
After his 1955 amnesty, Fidel Castro leaves Cuba for Mexico to organize an armed expedition against the Batista government.
Meeting with Che Guevara
Fidel Castro meets Ernesto Guevara in Mexico City and recruits him into the expeditionary group preparing to return to Cuba.
Mexico Exile Organisation
Raúl Castro works with the exile group in Mexico as it recruits, trains and prepares for an armed return to Cuba.
Other events (month unknown)
26th of July Movement
Juan Almeida Bosque joins Castro's exile movement in Mexico after his release from prison under the 1955 political amnesty.
26th of July Movement
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the failed July 26, 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
26th of July Movement
Raúl Castro befriends Ernesto Guevara in Mexico City and helps bring him into Fidel Castro's circle of Cuban revolutionaries.
26th of July Movement
Raúl Castro maintains contact in Mexico with Nikolai Leonov, then a junior Soviet embassy official whom Castro had first met during travel in 1953.
Coup
Receives guerrilla training in Mexico before the Granma expedition.
Exile of Fidel Alejandro Castro
Receives guerrilla training in Mexico before the Granma expedition.
Exile of Fidel Alejandro Castro
The Castro brothers join other exiles in Mexico to prepare a revolution to overthrow Batista
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