Life Magazine on Castro's Rebellion in Cuba

You can read an American account of Castro's overthrow of the Batista regime in Cuba in this brilliant, 1958 issue of Life Magazine HERE. You can read other accounts of the build up and aftermath of the revolution by searching the Life Magazine archives.

Links below retrieve 1950’s Cuba LIFE articles of special interest to Cuba 1952-1959 history.

• Ingredients of a revolution (LIFE Mar 24, 1952: Batista Coup)
• Wanted: a mandate (LIFE Aug 9, 1954: 1954 Elections)
  
• Eleventh body in a mystery (LIFE May 21, 1956: Goicuria garrison Matanzas attack)
  
• Revolt fails but defiance lives on in Cuba (LIFE Mar 25, 1957: Presidential Palace Attack)
• In man’s War US Boys Quit (LIFE May 27, 1957 p43: Taber Sierra Rebels photos)
• Castro on eve of his big bid (LIFE Apr 14, 1958: Castro preparing for “Total War”)
  
• [Batista’s] Violent show's smooth front (LIFE Apr 21, 1958: Total War aftermath)
• Exclusive Report: The Captives in Cuba (LIFE Jul 14, 1958: Raul Castro hostages)
• Inside Rebel Cuba with Raul Castro (LIFE Jul 21, 1958: US Hostage negotiations)
• [Castro’s] Liberator’s Triumphal March (LIFE Jan 19, 1959: Entrance to Havana)
• The Killing in Cuba and a moral issue (LIFE Jan 26, 1959: Castros defend executions)
• Hate holds court in Cuba (LIFE Feb 2, 1959: Revolutionary trials)
  
• At ringside when Cuba clobbered democracy (LIFE Jul 27, 1959: Urrutia ouster)

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