Juan Tamayo of El Nuevo Herald has a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Battle at Escambray (the last armed internal combat against the Castro dictatorship.)
Fifty years ago, Rivera was one of up to 4,000 Cubans battling Castro’s brand new government in a little-known, but nasty guerrilla war that raged in parts of the island from roughly 1960 to 1966. The battle is best known for the difficult terrain where the anti-Castro rebels made their stand — in the Escambray, the south central mountain range in Cuba and where the bloodiest fighting took place.
(Image: Escambray guerrillas. By latinamericanstudies.org)