Fidel Castro Steps Down
Bettmann / Corbis
Origins of a Revolutionary
The future dictator stands with his staff and troop commanders near the Cuban
coastline in 1957. In November of the preceding year, Castro and 81
other men, armed with assault rifles and a small store of ammunition,
surreptitiously sailed onto Cuban shores.
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