1958 saw the Guerrilla armies in Cuba grow in number.  The Cuban Army was sent to crush Fidel Castro and his rebels in operation summer, it nearly success but Fidel Castro led his men out of a trap.  The American Government turn against the Cuban dictator and he is forced to flee.  In December 1958, the rebels overcame the Cuban Army.

During 1957, Fidel Castro guerrilla band would grow in numbers, they attacked isolated Army garrisons in Eastern Cuba and the Cuban Army would abandon parts of the countryside to the rebels.  Fidel Castro would prove to  a master of public relations and reassure the world he was a democrat not a Communist.  A biography of his brother Raul.

Fidel and Raul Castro would form a small army of Cuban exiles in Mexico, to train and return to Cuba, to try to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship.  They would be joined by an Argentina doctor Che Guevara, his biography is given.  They and eighty other rebels would travel back on a boat the Granma but within a few days most would be dead. 

Fidel Castro in 1952, when Cuba fell under a military dictatorship.  He founded the Movement an underground resistance to the Cuban Dictatorship.  The Movement in July 1953 launched an attack on a army garrison the attack was a failure and Fidel and his brother Raul were sent to prison but not for long for they would be released and would go into exile in Mexico.