Friday, July 26, 2013


This is an important day in Fidel Castro's Cuba. Sixty years ago, Castro's band of rebels attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago. They failed, and the survivors fled. Six years later the 26th of July Movement succeeded and Fulgencio Batista fled. Castro became leader of the country and soon dictator. I have been to the Moncada Barracks museum in Santiago. I have seen Abel Santa Maria's blood-stained uniform. Very moving.