Impressive list of news stories in Spanish, and a link to GranmaĪn award as one of the world's most comprehensive multi-lingual sites. Despite its small size, that placed Cuba behind onlyīrazil, Argentina, and Mexico in the region. Having a choice of 58 daily newspapers during the late 1950s, according to the Nacion on Sundays, and Trabajadores on Mondays), as well as variousįifty years ago, the Cuban people were among the most informed in the world, Publishes a weekly international edition and two other official weeklies ( Juventud Quarter of its 1990 peak of 1.6 million copies daily.The newspaper also Of Cuba, and Revolucion, the daily newspaper of Castro's 26th of Julyīecause of Cuba's foreign currency problems, shortages of paper and ink haveĪffected even government-owned media. Publications: Hoy (Spanish: for Today), the organ of the Communist Party Granma newspaper was established in 1965 by the merger of two major The first and only successful socialist revolution in the Americas. Guevara was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched

Two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Of their party, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra, a mountain Landing in a hostile swamp, in a province now also named Granma, losing most Purpose of the voyage was to return to Cuba and initiate the war for the Of Veracruz, on November 25, with 82 men aboard, commanded by Fidel Castro. 'It had left from Tuxpan, in the Mexican state The eastern coast of Cuba, at Los Cayuelos, two kilometers from Las Coloradasīeach,' Granma International recalled last year, on the 45thĪnniversary of the landing. 'On December 2, 1956, the Granma cabin cruiser arrived on The decrepit and leaking boat, vowing to invade Cuba and overthrow dictator With a small group of supporters, Castro and Guevara crossed the Caribbean in He may not have considered the legal consequences of his actions and just wanted to get rid of the yacht to the first bidder. It is not hard to imagine that the man who sold the yacht might have needed a Cincinnati Criminal Defense Attorney for dealing with a revolutionary leader. Castro bought the yacht Granmaįrom a Texan (who had named it after his grandmother). where he joined forces with Che Guevara ( *1),Ī young Argentine doctor who had abandoned his profession and his native land inĪn ill-fated bid to help the world's poor. His men sailed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 to start the revolution.Ĭastro had been exiled to Mexico. Ludicrous English language title? It took a long time and many e-mails to How did a Spanish-language newspaper acquire that Island,' said Granma, when plans for the visit were first announced.Įvery Cuban knows Granma. President Fidel Castro, is a critic of the prolonged U.S. Former US president Jimmy Carter is sure to receive a warm welcome from Granma

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