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Maveric149 added the following sentence to this article:

"The United States then placed an embargo on Cuba and Castro responded by nationalizing American and foreign-owned property in the nation on August 6, 1960."

This is not accurate: the Castro government began the nationalizations/confiscations/expropriations in March 1959 and the U.S. government imposed its first economic embargo on Cuba on October 19, 1960, primarily as a response to the nationalizations. Then, on October 24, 1960 Cuba nationalized all remaining properties owned by U.S. interests as its response to the imposition of the U.S. embargo ...

Hello - I've been rearching the Cuban revolution at the US National Archives and have uploaded several hundred pages at http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/gringosintherevolution/gringosintherevolution.htm Any comments or insights welcome at paulwolf@icdc.com

- Paul

OK paul 404 error on that link

--Gotten 21:56, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Corrected Paul Wolf's URL above --Rolando 04:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

and the other thing: i want to make major changes in the first paragraphs of "triumph of the revolution, it is bad written, first there were FOUR "fronts" which were static and their locations were in the "oriente" province, now santiago, granma, guantamo, and other provinces of the eastern Cuba, the "columns" were two, one leaded by "Che" and the other by "camilo cienfuegos" they were the ones who entered havana first one taking "Columbia" and the other taking "El morro Cabaña", in january 8 Fidel entered havana.. although there are roumours that he was in havan before that, but almost every major historic source confirm that he really entered january 8, i am going to make the changes soon(today or tomorrow morning, i am writing the section from scratch), plase if someone has opinion on this please post it. --Gotten 21:56, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Urban Resistance 2 Incomplete? 3 Frank País 4 Added resource 5 Needs mention of elections 6 Additions 7 Referencing 8 This article is missing lots of stuff that is in the Castro page 9 NPOV 10 Map is wrong

[edit] Urban Resistance

There is no mention in this article about the Urban Underground, which was responsible for a good deal of the successes of the revolution. Some maintain that it is the urban resistance that was the main catylyst for the triumph of the revolution, but that their involvement has been downplayed in the years since the revolution in an effort to associate the struggle with the romantic image of the guerilla becoming one with 'the people." At any rate, any serious attempt to inform readers about the cuban revolutionary war needs to include this often overlooked front of the war. In time, should nobody else do so, I will attempt to write a section about this, but my knowledge of this is lacking at present and I would prefer to brush up a bit. Should anybody who is better equipped desire to do this, it would make an excellent addition to this article.

Since nobody has changed the article around to reflect the role of the urban wing of the revolutionary movement, I have decided I will take this task upon myself. My concern is that giving it its own section will draw away from a smooth article, as it did work concurrently with the rebels in the Sierra Maestra. I think it might be best to wait to merge the sections on the Sierra & the Revolutionary War with that of the Urban Front. . . at least until there is enough information on the latter to make it work. takethemud 20:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)takethemud

Article has been fixed up perhaps now it better reflects objective reality El Jigüe 12-07-05

[edit] Incomplete?

This article (as of 5/11/2006 anyway) jumps from Castro's forces barely surviving in the mountains to post-revolution trials and purges. Surely something happened between these two events.

[edit] Frank País

The article on Frank País seems to have quite a bit of general history on the Cuban Revolution. I'm not sure if it belongs there, but it does seem relevant here. --Rolando 04:31, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added resource

Added the book "Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground" to the "References" section. --Ersatzbot 14:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Needs mention of elections

This article seems to have no mention of the elections that had taken place shortly before the barbudos marched into Havana. This is a rather critical omission since the revolutionaries had issued threats that anyone going to the polls would be "machine-gunned down" - something like that, I can't remember the exact wording - going to have to look up some of the old news coverage from back then. Someone should really get on this! I shall see what I can dig up and find sources for.

Cheers.

Goatboy95 15:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additions

The below addition to the opening paragraph is getting way off topic and perhaps is barely relevant to the nether reaches of the article. Plus the opinion that the Revolution had Stalinist principles is just that, an opinion, and not one I or most people who write about the subject would agree with.--Zleitzen 00:17, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Batista government, including the implementation of Marxist and Stalinist principles. As such, there were several attempts to use it as a model for other countries to follow, mainly through communist conspiracy and subversion tactics, which historically gave rise to guerrilla warfare movements in nine (9) Latin American countries during the 1960s, all of which failed.

[edit] Referencing

I tagged that new section as unreferenced, but it now strikes me that the whole article is terribly short on referencing. -- Beardo 16:45, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article is missing lots of stuff that is in the Castro page

transfer stuff and delete it from the Castro page that is too long Tree Hugger 05:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I find this to be violting NPOV since it's a biased line expressing the position of the writer:

"In addition to the physical attacks endured by Batista, further insult came from a pirate radio station called Rebel Radio (Radio Rebelde)"

I think this should be changed. 189.141.53.143 05:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC) ZealotKommunizma

You can make changes, or suggest something here. -- Beardo 07:25, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map is wrong

The map confuses sugar mills Palma Soriano and Estrada Palma. Am I the only one who noticed El Jigue 208.65.188.149 20:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the map EJ.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 20:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)