3. José Martí

4. Antonio Maceo

5. Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill The U.S.S. Maine

8. May 2, 1902—Independence Declared.

9. President Estrada Palma

10. Gerardo Machado y Morales

28. Matanzas sugar mill

34. Slaves feeding crushed cane stalks into the sugar mill steam furnaces

39. Cuban Sugar Mill

40. La Zafra (Sugar Harvest)

41. Inside the sugar mill

43. Gambling

44. Night Clubs Prostitution

45. Fulgencio Batista

46. Fidel Castro

47. On July 26, 1953, Castro led a small band of rebels against the Moncada army barracks. The attack failed, and most of the 165 attackers were killed or captured and tortured. Castro himself was captured, but the 26 of July Movement was born. La Moncada

51. Ernesto “Che” Guevara

52. On January 1, 1959, abandoned by his American allies, Batista and his closest aids fled the country. Soon thereafter, Castro enters Havana victoriously.

55. Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos)