Revolutionary Offensive
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The Revolutionary Offensive was a political campaign in Cuba starting in 1968 to nationalize all remaining private small businesses, which at the time totaled to be about 58,000 small enterprises. The
Poster of Fidel Castro chopping sugar cane promoting the push for a mass sugar harvest.
Cuban Revolution
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The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup
Fidel Castro and his men in the Sierra Maestra, 1956
Fulgencio Batista in military uniform in 1952, the year of his coup to gain power
Fidel Castro under arrest after the July 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba
Student protests in Havana, 1956