ESCAMBRAY REBELLION

Varied groups of insurgents, including supporters of Batista, rebel against Castro’s government in the Escambray Mountains. They are initially supported by the CIA and Dominican Republic but they are eventually defeated and killed in their thousands by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Militiamen pose at a base camp on a confiscated plantation, 14 February 1961

Che Guevara pictured next to a tank after the Battle of Santa Clara