Cuban revolutionary war
The
Cuban revolutionary war was the armed conflict between the Cuban revolutionary forces, the 26th of July Movement, and the Cuban state under General
Fulgencio Batista. It started with the assault on the Moncada base on the
26 July 1953, and ended on
1 January 1959, when Batista was driven from the country and the cities
Santa Clara and
Santiago de Cuba was liberated by sections of the people's army, led by
Che Guevara and respectively
Fidel Castro.
The Cuban Revolution does in Cuban speech refer to the social revolution from 1959 to present.