Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
A walk through the streets to reach our final stop at Monumento a la Toma del Tren Blindado.
History was made at the site of this small boxcar museum on December 29, 1958, when Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of 18 rifle-wielding revolutionaries barely out of their teens derailed an armored train using a borrowed bulldozer and homemade Molotov cocktails.
The battle lasted 90 minutes and improbably pulled the rug out from under the Batista dictatorship, ushering in 50 years of Fidel Castro. The museum – east on Independencia, just over the river – marks the spot where the train derailed and ejected its 350 heavily-armed government troops. The celebrated bulldozer is mounted on its own plinth at the entrance.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cuba/central-cuba/santa-clara/sights/landmarks-monuments/monumento-la-toma-del-tren-blindado#ixzz3wp5UZFkQ
Having seen so many Juilio 26 flags by now, decided that I just have to have my own July 26 and Cuban flag to fly from my home flag pole.
The 26th of July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de Julio; M-26-7) was a vanguard revolutionary organization led by Fidel Castro that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba. The Movement fought the Batista regime on both rural and urban fronts.
The 26th of July Movement's name originated from the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, an army facility in the city of Santiago de Cuba, on 26 July 1953. The movement was reorganized in Mexico in 1955 by a group of 82 exiled revolutionaries (including Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos,Huber Matos and Juan Almeida Bosque). Their task was to form a disciplined guerrilla force to overthrow Batista.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement
Monumento a la Toma del Tren Blindado
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Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
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