In 1958 Fidel Castro and his men encamped in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, in southwestern Cuba, several hundred miles from Havana.

Fidel Castro in the Jungle

Fifty years ago, photographer Enrique Meneses accompanied the young revolutionary and his men for four months during their historic push to Havana

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