How Cuban workers and farmers took power in 1959

By Jean Ulman
October 5, 2018

From left, Ernesto Che Guevara, Alfonso Zayas, Rogelio Acevedo, at 1964 reunion of combatants in Rebel Army column led by Guevara. “The Rebel Army was a political vanguard organization that was painstakingly selected and tested in battle,” Mary-Alice Waters writes. “As the revolutionary war advanced, these cadres became more educated and more politically homogeneous.”

From left, Ernesto Che Guevara, Alfonso Zayas, Rogelio Acevedo, at 1964 reunion of combatants in Rebel Army column led by Guevara. “The Rebel Army was a political vanguard organization that was painstakingly selected and tested in battle,” Mary-Alice Waters writes. “As the revolutionary war advanced, these cadres became more educated and more politically homogeneous.”