A topic from Leadership Class

1. Leading Principles of Fidel Castro

3.  1. Focusing , connecting to the proletarian masses . ( combine the
strength of masses / populace ) to defeat the dictatorship

4.  2. Wisdom of a group is better than the wisdom of one
person ( we need a group of commanders ) .

7.  5. Everyone ( include commanders ) must self-criticize ( mistakes )
 6. There must be a discipline in the military .

10. . Che Guevara (born June 14,
1928, Argentina 1967, Bolivia),
. Theoretician and tactician
of guerrilla warfare
. Prominent communist figure in
the Cuban Revolution (1956–59),
and later guerrilla leader in South
America.
. Military advisor of Fidel Castro

11.  Date :
December 28, 1958 - January 1,
1959
 Location :
Santa Clara, Cuba
 Result :
Decisive victory for the 26th of
July Movement.
Final defeat of Batista
government.
Batista flees Cuba.

12.  The Cuban Revolution leadership
(the Castro Brothers, Ché
Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and
others) .
 He sent three small armies into
the interior, commanded by Jaime
Vega, Camilo Cienfuegos and Ché
Guevara.
 In December, Guevara and his
force moved into position to
assault the key strategic city of
Santa Clara .

13.  Guevara’s attack looked suicidal.

15.  He was outgunned, out-supplied and
outnumbered ten-to-one.
 Batista’s men were demoralized while the
rebels were fired up
 The population of Santa Clara for the most
part supported the insurgents.

16.  Guevara and his men were met by some of
Batista’s soldiers and one of the tanks .
 Some rebels were killed and others wounded.
 Federal airplanes strafed the rebels.
 The soldiers on the train took up positions on
a hill outside of town and began shooting at
the rebels as well.
 The troops in the barracks did not enter the
fight, however, remaining in the military
compound.

17.  Keeping the large garrison bottled up
 Neutralizing the armored train (whose soldiers had
shown the most willingness to fight)
 Getting the civilians of Santa Clara involved.
 Result :
 Some rail tracks were destroyed .

18.  The officers inside the armored train  The
barracks for protection.
 The damage to the rails caused a derailment,
and three of the cars overturned.
 Ché struck quickly, sending his men to fire on
the train and attack it with homemade
Molotov cocktails.
 The men inside, cooking in the heat, quickly
surrendered.

19.  Bazookas, machine
guns, mortars, a 20mm
cannon, 600 rifles
ammunition
 The 350 soldiers and
officers on board the
train were taken
prisoner

20.  On the December 30, Ché’s men ran into a deadly
firefight at the police headquarters. ( In the city ,
the police was afraid , the populace were tortured
for supporting the rebels ) .
 On the 31st, the police barracks fell and Ché and
his men were in possession of the city itself,
although not the military barracks.
 January 1, the demoralized garrison surrendered
unconditionally.

21.  Ché was fanatically loyal to Fidel Castro and
when he arrived in Havana he controlled the
best-equipped army in the country
 Castro took command without much trouble
from the others.
 Castro was good at assigning tasks to his
subordinates .