Che Guevara
- A marxist revolutionary
- Born in Rosario, Argentina
- He was the primary advisor to Castro and led guerilla forces in attacks against the Batista regime (second in command)
- Met Castro in Mexico in 1955
- Guevara set up factories to make grenades, built ovens to bake bread, taught new recruits about tactics, and organized schools to teach illiterate campesinos to read and write
- Guevara established health clinics, workshops to teach military tactics, and a newspaper to disseminate information
- Guevara was also known for being brutal and ruthless, sending squads to track defectors
- He helped set up the rebel radio station, Radio Rebelde
- He was one of the 82 rebels on board the Granma
- In charge of the underground movement in Santiago
- He created an organisation who prepared carefully, finding, repairing, and hiding weapons, participating in mass demonstrations against the dictatorship, raising money, collecting medical supplies.
- They published a little mimeographed bulletin which sold for ten cents, reporting news and criticizing the government, countering the censorship with which Batista periodically blanketed the island.
- Summer 1955, his organisation merged with July 26 movement of Castros, becoming the leader of the Oriente
- They prepared for the armed uprising of Castros
- Died July 30 after being discovered in a safe house
- In response to his death, workers of Santiago declared a spontaneous general strike
- largest popular demonstration in the city
- The mobilization of July 30, 1957 is considered one of the most decisive dates in both the cuban revolution and the fall of Batista's dictatorship
- Met Castro in Mexico and was one of the 82 rebels on board the Granma
- By 1957 he was promoted to Commandante
- Ordered to lead one of the columns to attack the city of Santa Clara (was a success)
- Was the only revolutionary who's support rivaled Castro's
- Fidel Castro's younger brother
- In 1953, Raúl aided Fidel in an attempt to unseat the repressive Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, but the two brothers ended up in prison after a failed attack on a military base.
- When they were eventually pardoned and released in 1955, they fled to Mexico, where they planned their return to Cuba for the following year, when they would try, once again, to overthrow the Batista regime.
- For the next few years, Raúl assisted his brother in many ways, including leading a group of the movement's guerrilla fighters
- she created the essential foundation for the guerilla's re-entry into Cuba to restart the revolution after the heroic but defeated assault on the Moncada Barracks
- Leader of the underground wing of the July 26 Movement
- She was a tremendous lifeline for the guerrilla fighters, smuggling much needed supplies into the Sierra Maestra as well as training new combat troops to join the armed struggle
- Created the Farmer's Militia: network of Cuban farmers and landowners who protected, joined and supplied resources to the guerillas in their early days in the Sierra Maestra
- participated in the assault on Moncada Barracks
- she helped to found the 26th of July Movement, joining the guerrilla forcs
- She fought for the women's battalion for the rebel army
- She travelled to the US to organise its Cuban community and to by weaponry from Mafia thugs
- She was a leader of the revolutionary movement in Oriente province
- Acted as a messenger between the movement and Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement'sShe tehn went on to assist the revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra mountains after the 26th of July Movement's return to Cuba