student. After Batista's coup in 1952, he went to court and tried to have

the Batista dictatorship declared illegal. However, his attempt to

peacefully bring down the Batista government did not work, and so in 1953,

Castro turned toward violent means. On July 26, 1953, Castro led a group of

men to attack the Moncada military fortress. However, his little rebellion

was immediately crushed by the Batista army. In fact, the Roman Catholic

archbishop of Santiago had to make the government promise that the rebels

would live, if they would stop fighting and come down from the mountains.

Sure enough, the government kept its promise and Fidel Castro and his

followers were sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Batista, in order

to gain some popular support, released them after a few months.

Castro's rebellion failed, it sparked hopes of revolution everywhere in

Cuba. After a few years of exile in Mexico, Castro and a small band of about

eighty-five men returned to Cuba in December of 1956. Many of the men

perished during the initial landing, but a small group including Fidel

for a better life. As the Soviet Union itself declined, Cuba's economy

the Twenty-sixth of July Movement, after the earlier unsuccessful raid on

capable of carrying nuclear warheads. With a nuclear threat only 90 miles

Canada and Mexico have expressed deep regret in the passage of the

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