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- Fidel!

Fidel!

Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, Fidel!

- Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, Fidel.

- March, 1952.

In Cuba, Fluhencio Batista takes power with army support.

Fidel Castro, a young attorney responds to the coup d'etat.

He organizes a small group of men and women

who attack Fort Moncada,

the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba.

The attack fails.

Most of the rebels are captured and tortured.

Some are killed.

Castro escapes and is later seized and tried secretly.

In his defense, he says,

"Sentence me, it is not important.

"History will absolve me."

In two years, he is released from prison.

He goes to Mexico and organizes a guerrilla force.

December, 1956, Castro returns to Cuba with the guerrillas

on the yacht called Granma.

- January, 1959.

Fidel and the guerrillas take power.

The revolution begins.

Rents are cut 50%.

The American-owned utilities and telephone

are nationalized.

The revolutionary government forms a tribunal

to try Batista officials.

Some 500 are condemned and shot.

Most Cubans applaud.

But American public opinion is shocked.

Charges of communism are hurled at Castro

from the United States.

While exiled Cubans are permitted

to carry out raids from Florida.

Tension mounts.

Castro charges the CIA with acts of sabotage

including blowing up a munitions ship in Havana Harbor.

Hostilities escalate as more American property

is nationalized.

Congress eliminates the Cuban sugar quota.

January, 1961, Castro charges the US embassy

with being a spy base,

demands that the staff be drastically reduced.

President Eisenhower breaks diplomatic relations.

Switzerland takes charge of the U.S. embassy.

And later, the U.S. provides for two daily flights

to bring dissatisfied Cubans to the U.S.

The Soviet Union agrees to buy Cuba's sugar

and provide her with arms.

By October, 1962, these arms include

intermediate range missiles

which leads the world to the brink of nuclear war.

But the direct confrontation

-between the U. -S and Cuba comes in April, 1961.

At a place which the Cubans call Giron Beach.

In the U.S., it is known as the Bay of Pigs.

- Fight in the mountain.

They think that I kill

people.

- Was that true?

- I don't know.

I believe that I were judged, tribunal.

- Did you have a fair trial?

- No.

- You did not?

- Not.

- How many years did you receive?

- 35 years.

- Do you see your family?

- Yes, my family sometimes, yes.

- Are you free to visit them?

Can you visit?

- Yes, yes.

- For how many days can you leave?

- 15 days, at the week by week.

They come here.

- Good morning.

- Good morning, teacher.

How are you?

- Fine, thank you, and you?

- Very well, thank you.

- A wound, a hurt.

And our blood, you know what is blood?

- Yes.

- Blood, our blood bleeds.

Did you understand what is bleeds?

- Yes.

- Watch.

Precisely today, we are going to study blood.

Blood cells.

You know that our blood has many, many elements

that, today, we are going to study in English

and you--

Well, I am 20 years old.

And, I am here

one year.

I'm teaching only one year.

You know that we,

we are from workers, right?

We are sons of, workers' sons, eh?

Then, our parents are revolutionary

because they are workers.

Dip.

- Dip.

- Deep.

- Dip, deep.

- Sheep, ship.

- If you say ship for sheep,

if an American woman or man hears you say ship

and he doesn't understand you, man.

You understand?

- Yes.

- You have to be very, very careful.

Here, in the school,

the students govern in everything.

And, the floors in the dormitories

they have responsible of everything.

- When we enter to class,

the class has to be completely organized

and we begin our class without any problem.

- I rather prefer not to wait for the fisher arrive.

I prefer to go to the United States.

- We, we know we are young men.

We can have a good future

where we going.

- We don't like to talk about politics.

- They take us to the country

and work in the sugar cane camps.

- If I don't work in ag, in agriculture

the government don't leave me,

don't give me paper

which the

statement that I had worked.

And without this paper,

I cannot live away.

That is, eh,

a law.

- This is the question now.

Why we have tell wait so long?

- Have you asked?

- Yeah.

- And what do they say?

- They say that's the way, they said it.

They wait and wait.

(singing in Spanish, "Guantanamera"

- Her school is at the Havana Greenbelt now.

She writes about her activities.

Listen.

"June 6, 1968, year of the heroic guerrilla.

"Dear Brother,

"I am writing to you from the Havana Greenbelt now.

"It is Sunday morning ..."

- and my brigade does not work in the field

in the morning.

We have to clean the camp today.

Then, we listen to the instructor.

He speaks about the activities

for the day.

At seven o'clock,

we go to the field.

The girls sing

and talk very much

on the way

to the coffee plantation.

- We are very happy here--

- "here at the Havana Greenbelt.

"We are working in agriculture

"to help our revolution.

"With love,

"Your sister,

"Irma."

- They don't have hammocks.

They sleep on bunks.

- They don't have hammocks.

- They don't have hammocks

They sleep on bunks.

- They sleep on bunks.

- The boys shovel the earth

and the girls fill the plastic bags.

- Repeat, the boys shovel the earth

and the girls fill the plastic bags.

- Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, Fidel,

Fidel, Fidel, Fidel, Fidel.