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I put the ((POV)) because this article has nothing in common with reality. It seems exile-cubans hijacked this article to spread propaganda. This article needs a complete rewrite. The most cynic sentence is "Sixty-one rebels were killed in the fighting". Actually about a dozen rebels were killed fighting. The others were executed afterwards (Batista issued a order to kill all rebels). My English is way to bad to rewrite this article but Im going to delete most of it if nobody cares.

There's no need to completely remove most of the article. If you believe certain facts (such as the number of rebels killed) are incorrect, change them. I'm reverting the section you deleted. —DO'Neil 02:15, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Date of the amnesty

The beginning of the article says the amnesty happened in 1956, but below it says that the it happened "in the same year" of the 1955 moevement. The page 26th of July Movement also says they were already in Mexico by 1955. When exactly was the amnesty? -- NIC1138 23:57, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Math

Okay. The article says "Sixty-one rebels were killed in the fighting, and one third of them were captured. Half of the men captured were tortured to death." That's some dizzying math. One third of 61 is 20.333333..., and half of that is 10.16666666..., so this article leads me to believe that Batista's government tortured 10 and 1/6 men. I think that fractions ought to be replaced with specifics, or, if that's not possible, some "about"s ought to be thrown in. Benjamin ^{Scrīptum est - Fecī} 01:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)