Evaluate the Success of Castro in Bringing About a Revolution in Cuba.
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Castro began to have ideas of how to have a revolution when he first joined a group that opposed the idea of dictatorship and this is when he figured out how to successfully fight the Cuban army through the use of Guerrilla warfare. Castro’s success began with the Assault on the Moncada Barracks, the court case and speech and finally the Maestra Mountains. Through these series of events Castro manages to win the peoples heart’s and they help him bring about the revolution in Cuba but the question is what part of these events actually helped bring around the revolution.
Castro decided to attack Moncada when he became convinced that nothing was going to happen to cause a rebellion against Batista’s dictatorship and he had to be the one to start it to bring dictatorship down and allow for people to have equal rights. Castro went by a rule that his army was to be made of lower classes because if you can’t count on them then nothing makes sense. To attack the Moncada barracks Castro needed an army but because of a lack of political culture this ment that Castro had to convince men that the lack of employment, the abuse and injustice that the people faced was no the fault of individual politicians but of the system that Cuban’s were living under. In just a few months Castro through his using of convincing speeches and the way he talked to men who were unsure of the political system Castro managed to recruit up to 1200 men and it wsa a specific number as the less amount of people discipline was essential and wasn’t as much as it would be for a big army. The day before the assault Castro’s army of 1200 gathered at Siboney Farm which had been rented 3 months before the attack as it provided Mango trees which had good cover, it had a well which Castro hid guns in so that if there was a search of the houses no weapons would be found and it was also Castro’s headquarters and safe house and was disguised as a chicken farm to disguise the movement happening on the farm...
Castro decided to attack Moncada when he became convinced that nothing was going to happen to cause a rebellion against Batista’s dictatorship and he had to be the one to start it to bring dictatorship down and allow for people to have equal rights. Castro went by a rule that his army was to be made of lower classes because if you can’t count on them then nothing makes sense. To attack the Moncada barracks Castro needed an army but because of a lack of political culture this ment that Castro had to convince men that the lack of employment, the abuse and injustice that the people faced was no the fault of individual politicians but of the system that Cuban’s were living under. In just a few months Castro through his using of convincing speeches and the way he talked to men who were unsure of the political system Castro managed to recruit up to 1200 men and it wsa a specific number as the less amount of people discipline was essential and wasn’t as much as it would be for a big army. The day before the assault Castro’s army of 1200 gathered at Siboney Farm which had been rented 3 months before the attack as it provided Mango trees which had good cover, it had a well which Castro hid guns in so that if there was a search of the houses no weapons would be found and it was also Castro’s headquarters and safe house and was disguised as a chicken farm to disguise the movement happening on the farm...