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	Granma Province
		In 1976, the province was named after Granma, the yacht that Fidel Castro's original band of revolutionaries used to return from exile.
		The province is named after Granma, the yacht which carried
		Granma province is another small, mainly agricultural province in eastern Cuba.
	library.thinkquest.org /18355/granma_province.html

	Fidel Castro -- Address to the Open Tribune in Manzanillo Granma Province
		Our beloved province of Oriente was not multiplied by five when destiny wanted to lead our small Granma yacht — with only two inches of fuel left in its tanks — to the swampy shores of Las Coloradas, in Niquero municipality.
		Without the support of Manzanillo, of Bayamo, and all fellow countrymen and women who lived in what is today Granma, nothing of the afore mentioned would have bee possible.
		We could not then imagine that the region where we rebuilt and developed our small army with the few scattered combatants that were left after the worst of setbacks, would one day become a province named after the small yacht that took us from Mexico to this corner of Cuba.
	www.agitprop.org.au /stopnato/20000704fidelrhacu.htm

	Granma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also the name of the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, (see Granma (newspaper)), Granma University in Bayano and Granma Province, which were named after the yacht.
		A portion of old Oriente Province was renamed Granma Province in honor of the vessel.
		Granma is the ship that transported the fighters of the Cuban Revolution to Cuba in 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Granma (208 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Granma
		Castro bought the yacht Granma from a Texan (who had named it after his grandmother).
		Granma newspaper was established in 1965 by the merger of two major publications: Hoy (Spanish: for Today), the organ of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Revolucion, the daily newspaper of Castro's 26th of July movement.
		Granma's circulation is now only a quarter of its 1990 peak of 1.6 million copies daily.The newspaper also publishes a weekly international edition and two other official weeklies (Juventud Nacion on Sundays, and Trabajadores on Mondays), as well as various provincial sheets.
	www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/granma.htm (638 words)

	Granma -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Granma was established in 1965 by the merger of what then were the two major, and rival, newspapers, Hoy (Spanish: “Today”), the...
		Granma was established in 1965 by the merger of what then were the two major, and rival, newspapers, Hoy (Spanish: “Today”), the organ of the…
		"Granma" Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037726 (558 words)

	Cuba Granma Tourism — Places to see, detailed information on all aspects of tourism, hotels, infrastructure and recent additions
		A historical site recalling the route followed by the members of the Granma yacht expedition, which commanded by Fidel Castro disembarked in this site on December 2nd, 1956, has been preserved.
		In this National Park, is located the main tourist center in Granma: Marea del Portillo, a beach of quiet and transparent waters and brown sands, which delights the visitor due to the beauty of the mountain landscape behind it.
		The Desembarco del Granma National Park is another tourist attraction of this province.
	www.cuba-granma.com /en/tourism.asp (436 words)

	Granma Cuba - Meet Granma Cuba with us
		It is one of the most geologically diverse of all the island's provinces, The Sierra Maestra mountain range in the east is the most striking section of landscape and contrasts vividly with the flat plains around the Cauto river to the west of Granma.
		Granma information, Granma hotels reservations and special offers in Granma, Cuba.
		This province takes its name from the yacht which landed near its southwestern tip bearing Castro, Che, and their supporters.
	www.supercubatravel.com /destinations/granma.asp (360 words)

	HHD Forums - View Profile: granma
		On 25 November 1956, the tiny yacht Granma set sail for Cuba.
		granma is not a member of any public groups
		Castro said, 'We will be free, or we will be martyrs.'
	www.hiphop-directory.com /forums/member.php?userid=3490 (32 words)

	Rooms for rent in Havana Cuba. Alquiler Habitaciones Habana
		One of them covers 22 kilometers between the mangrove swamp of Las Coloradas and the sugar cane plantations of Alegría de Pío, which led the way of the crew members of the Granma Yacht who, under the command of Fidel Castro, disembarked in this area on December 2 of the year 1956.
		Granma Province-especially the city of Bayamo-has been the scene of many key events in Cuban history and culture, from Cuba's wars of independence in the 19th century to the war of liberation waged in the late 1950s, which wound up with the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.
		Granma Province 730 km (just over 450 miles) southeast of Havana has many natural tourist attractions.
	casas-cuba.bravepages.com /e/provinces_cuba/granma.htm (32 words)

	Granma Lowest Hotel Rates Guaranteed.
		Granma: It is one of the most geologically diverse of all the island's provinces, The Sierra Maestra mountain range in the east is the most striking section of landscape and contrasts vividly with the flat plains around the Cauto river to the west of Granma.
		Bayamo: It is the capital of Granma Province.
		This province takes its name from the yacht which landed near its southwestern tip bearing Castro, Che, and their supporters.
	www.visitacuba.com /granma.html (32 words)

	Cuba Granma City and Provincial Guide, Tourist Spots, Hotels, Travel planner, History and Culture
		The province is named after the yacht in which Fidel Castro, together with 82 men, arrived from exile in Mexico on December 2nd,1956 to start the guerrilla fight in the mountains.
		This province comprises the northern slopes of the Sierra Maestra mountains and its western end, ending in Cabo Cruz, as well as the middle and lower basins of Cauto river.
		The southern coast, abrupt due to the closeness of the mountains, is low and swampy sometimes.
	www.cuba-granma.com /en/index.asp (32 words)

	Granma's turistic maps and information
		Granma is located in the region of the East of the island.
		The province takes the name of the yacht in which Fidel Castro arrived from Mexico, with 82 men, December 2th of 1956, to initiate its revolution from the mountains of Sierra Maestra.
		The steep coast towards the south by the bordering presence of mountains is low and sometimes marshy.
	www.rentaencuba.com /en/mapas_granma.htm (32 words)

	CastroMania Castro Fidel Cuba
		The name "Granma" was probably just a coincidence--the yacht already had that name when Fidel bought it from an old American couple living in Mexico.
		It was the Granma the ship that brough Castro and his men from Mexico in 1956 to begin a long guerrilla war against President Batista.
		But many claim that in fact the true reason for the yacht's name was because it had been dedicated to the Gran Ma, a mysterious pagan goddess.
	home.earthlink.net /~servando/cm0104.htm (32 words)

	Che Guevara bio - History of Cuba
		Guevara was one of only a handful of foreigners who came with the Castro Brothers on the Yacht called "Granma" to fight against the Batista dictatorship.
		Upon landing in Cuba, most of the 81 men on the yacht were caught or killed, and only 16 escaped into the Sierra Maestra Mountains, where peasants and farmers aided them until their forces grew into the revolutionary army that defeated Batista.
		Guevara suffered from a life-long asthmatic condition that might have prevented any other man from participating in guerilla warfare as he did, but he was determined to not let his ailment interfere with his ideals for a just society.
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/chebio.htm (760 words)

	Bayamo : Introduction Frommers.com
		Important enough that after the Revolution it received the name of the yacht Fidel and his brothers in arms sailed in from Mexico, and the government-owned and operated national daily newspaper is now named for the province: Read all about it in Granma.
		Bayamo, one of Cuba's original seven villas and today a midsize city and the capital of Granma province, is considered the birthplace of Cuban independence.
		Bayamo, the capital of the province, and the densely forested, impenetrable mountains of the Sierra Maestra at the extreme southwest corner of the Oriente region have long been at the forefront of political turmoil and rebellion.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/bayamo/3199010001.html (568 words)

	Che Guevara bio - History of Cuba
		Guevara was one of only a handful of foreigners who came with the Castro Brothers on the Yacht called "Granma" to fight against the Batista dictatorship.
		Upon landing in Cuba, most of the 81 men on the yacht were caught or killed, and only 16 escaped into the Sierra Maestra Mountains, where peasants and farmers aided them until their forces grew into the revolutionary army that defeated Batista.
		Guevara suffered from a life-long asthmatic condition that might have prevented any other man from participating in guerilla warfare as he did, but he was determined to not let his ailment interfere with his ideals for a just society.
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/chebio.htm (760 words)

	Che Guevara bio - History of Cuba
		Guevara was one of only a handful of foreigners who came with the Castro Brothers on the Yacht called "Granma" to fight against the Batista dictatorship.
		Upon landing in Cuba, most of the 81 men on the yacht were caught or killed, and only 16 escaped into the Sierra Maestra Mountains, where peasants and farmers aided them until their forces grew into the revolutionary army that defeated Batista.
		Guevara suffered from a life-long asthmatic condition that might have prevented any other man from participating in guerilla warfare as he did, but he was determined to not let his ailment interfere with his ideals for a just society.
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/chebio.htm (760 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
		The captain of Ernest Hemingway& yacht, the Pilar, put out his cigar and rested his eyes.
		GREGORIO Fuentes, tireless witness of the water’s ebbs and flows, bad weather and many stories, lived in blue and will be remembered in blue.
		For Hemingway, Gregorio represented the safe navigation of the ship, quiet company or a chatterbox, depending on the moment, but more than anything the assurance of having a person sensitive to the love of fish and the human condition.
	granmai.cubaweb.com /ingles/enero02-3/3gregor-i.html (343 words)

	CaseCuba.com
		Together with his brother Raùl, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and many others, left the coasts of Mexico in December 1956 aboard the yacht Granma, to lead the final offensive that resulted, in 1959, into Batista's exile and in the conquer of power by the Barbudos, nickname given by the people to the revolutionaries.
		Born from a low-class family and son of an anarchist, Camilo was forced to leave school and work as a tailor; at the age of 23, during a students' parade, was wounded by the troops of Batista and that episode convinced him that the right path to follow was the one of Fidèl.
		His troops acted, together with the ones of Camilo Cienfuegos, in the zone of Santa Clara and Camaguey, cutting the island in two, breaking the front of Batista's governmental troops.
	www.casecuba.com /eng/print/print-pr-main.htm (2587 words)

	Veterans object to sister-province ties with Cuba
		The County Council is exploring the idea of a sister relationship with the province of Granma, which is about the same geographic size as King County and is on a saltwater bay.
		The Cuban province was named after the yacht that Fidel Castro used to return to Cuba from Mexico in 1956.
		A King County plan to pursue a sister relationship with a Cuban province has inflamed some local military veterans, who say the county has no business dealing with a communist country that the United States lists as a sponsor of terrorism.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/52211_cuba27.shtml (2587 words)

	Babalu Blog: The Real Che Guevara - A Manifesto
		In January 1957, shortly after landing in Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with Fidel and Raul Castro, Che sent a letter to his discarded wife, Hilda Gadea.
		It's head, Mario Monje, was a faithful follower of the Soviet party-line.
		Almost all Cubans who knew him and are now in exile and able to talk freely (Jose Benitez, Mario Chanes de Armas Dariel Alarcon among others) recall Che Guevara as a classic psychopath.
	www.babalublog.com /archives/002382.html (9936 words)

	The Militant - 12/15/97 -- `Urbano' Speaks On Experiences With Che In Bolivia
		The Granma was the yacht in which Fidel Castro, Guevara, and 80 other members of the July 26 Movement sailed to Cuba in November-December 1956 to initiate the revolutionary war against the Batista dictatorship.
		Rodion Malinovsky was Soviet defense minister and commander of its land forces.
		On July 6, 1967, a guerrilla squad captured and briefly occupied Samaipata, the capital of Florida province in Bolivia, causing an international sensation.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6144/6144_20.html (1877 words)

	Comparative Criminology North America - Cuba
		There he organized the 26th of July Movement with the goal of overthrowing Batista, and the group sailed to Cuba on board the yacht Granma, landing in the eastern part of the island in December 1956.
		In July the CCHRNC reported that there were an estimated 249 political prisoners in the country; in July 2000, the CCHRNC reported 314 political prisoners.
		This NGO also reported that an additional 179 prisoners were convicted over a 1 year period of piracy (stealing a boat belonging to the Government in an attempt to leave the country), and illegal attempt to leave the country.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/namerica/cuba.html (10090 words)

	Cuba - Pictures from the Revolution in New York Art Knowledge News
		His father was freelancing for the Cuban weekly magazine, Bohemia, and one day received an assignment to photograph a young man named Fidel Castro who was in New York in 1955 to raise money for the 26th of July Movement, specifically for the planned expedition of the yacht Granma from Mexico to Cuba.
		When the Revolution came to power, Roberto immediately hitched a ride on a Cubana plane that had been captured by the 26th of July Movement, a plane stolen by Batistianos from Cuba, and now was going to be returned to Cuba.
		It was midweek in August, dead in terms of news, so it made the front page in three or four papers, and inside the New York Times, front page on the Herald Tribune and wire services sent it all over the country.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /?q=node/532 (519 words)

	Havana City ★ Rooms for rent in Havana Cuba. Apartments, private houses. Booking.
		Outside under a glass case is the Granma, the yacht which brought Castro and the leading rebels back to Cuba in 1956.
		And inside this their historical center "declared by the Humanity's UNESCO Patrimony in 1982" it is a point of having forced reference for as much as visitor arrives to this city, during considered centuries the key of the Gulf of Mexico.
		The surrounding 19th-century district of densely packed, crumbling houses and narrow streets has its own appeal as does the high-rise city centre (Vedado), developed during the 1940s and 1950s when US influence was strongest.
	www.geocities.com /rooms_havana/eng/havana_city_habana.htm (780 words)

	Che Guevara's Memories of The Cuban Revolution
		The majority of the 82 revolutionaries that came to Cuba on the 60-foot yacht named "Granma" were killed or captured, but a few escaped to the Sierra Maestra, including the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and a handful of others.
		I remembered an old story of Jack London's in which the hero, knowing that he is condemned to freeze to death in the icy reaches of Alaska, leans against a tree and decides to end his life with dignity.
		I am not sure of this, for I was thinking more of the bitterness of our defeat and the imminence of my death than of the specific incidents of the battle.
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/sidebar1.htm (394 words)

	Che Guevara bio - History of Cuba
		Guevara was one of only a handful of foreigners who came with the Castro Brothers on the Yacht called "Granma" to fight against the Batista dictatorship.
		Che had a missionary's faith in the innate goodness of man, in the ability of workers to dedicate themselves to ideals and to overcome selfishness and prejudices.
		The word "che" is the familiar diminutive for "you" in Argentina, as in "hey, you!" It was an affectionate term that became his "official" name and the one which he used for a signature, always with a lower-case "c."
	www.historyofcuba.com /history/chebio.htm (760 words)

	Revolutionary Army / Ejercito Revolucionario (ER)
		The Ejército Rebelde [Rebellious Army] formed from the survivors of the expedition of the yacht Granma, the 2 of December of 1956.
		It is the military organ subordinated to the head of the army of the respective territories.
		He is integrated by the Head of the Army, that presides over it; the presidents of the Provincial Defense councils of the territory of the Army, and other members designated by the Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/cuba/army.htm (1271 words)

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