Fidel Castro Ruz, 32, the rebel chief, is a nonpracticing lawyer who began fighting Batista in 1953 by leading a frontal attack on Moncada barracks in Santiago. He named his 26th of July movement ...

Standout relics include blood-stained uniforms of the fallen from the Santiago de Cuba Moncada Barracks attack, maps that were used for navigation during the war and bullet holes from an attempted ...

The 1952 attack on the Moncada barracks was a military and political disaster with most young revolutionaries involved killed in battle, shot on the spot, captured and tortured. Fidel was lucky ...