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  • Riot at Bogota, Colombia
  • Becomes Candidate for Cuban People’s Party
  • Fidel Castro Overthrows Fulgencio Batista
  • After Colombian head of Liberal party was fatally shot a riot was caused in Bogota, Colombia. This was one of Fidel Castro’s first time showing himself to a “revolutionary situation”.
  • Moncada Barracks Attack
  • After Castor graduated from law school, he joined Cuban People’s Party. He became the candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives. Before the voting was to happen Gen. Fulgencio Batista overthrew the government and cancelled the elections.
  • JFK Sets up training camp in Guatemala
  • Fidel Castro over threw the president of Cuba, Gen. Fulgencio Batista, and became president. The crowd yells and chants ”Fidel, Fidel, Fidel”.
  • Bay of Pigs
  • Castro made a rebel force after Batista overthrew the government. With his rebel force they were to attack a building in Moncada. The attack ended up being a suicide attack with most men dead and Fidel and Raul, Fidel Castro’s brother, arrested and was sentenced to 15 years. Due to a political amnesty they were released early.
  • JFK didn’t like that Cuba, a country 100 miles away from the United States, was a communist country. He then decided to start training camps in Guatemala to invade Cuba.
  • When the United States first invaded they failed to bomb their designated target. That led Castro to be more observative on what JFK plans to do to Cuba.