SIERRA MAESTRA

syāˈrä mäāˈsträ, rugged mountain range, SE Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. Consisting of connecting ranges with local names, the Sierra Maestra is the highest system of Cuba. It is rich in minerals, especially copper, manganese, chromium, and iron. Pico Turquino (6,560 ft/1,999 m) is the highest point. In the 1950s Fidel Castro had his base of operations in the mountains.

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books on: Sierra Maestra  - 265 results

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1.
Essays on Cuban History: Historiography and Research
Book by Louis A. Pérez Jr.; University Presses of Florida, 1995
Subjects: Cuba--Historiography, Cuba--History--1895-, Cuba--Research--United States, Cubans--Florida--History--20th Century
...to conditions in the Sierra Maestra. The quality of the...leadership in the Sierra Maestra, distant from the locus...Havanas authority in the Sierra Maestra region. For...in the distant Sierra Maestra against the Rural Guard...
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Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution
Book by Thomas C. Wright; Praeger Publishers, 2001
Subjects: Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Influence, Latin America--Politics And Government--1948-, Radicalism--Latin America--History--20th Century, United States--Military Policy, Violence--Latin America--History--20th Century
...to try to isolate Castroin the Sierra Maestra, where presumably he could do...on the perimeter of the Sierra Maestra, sent additional patrols into...the early period in the Sierra Maestra as follows: "In that period it...
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The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Book by Samuel Farber; University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Subjects: Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959--Causes, Cuba--Politics And Government--1959-1990, Cuba--Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--20th Century, United States--Relations--Cuba
...July Movement and its Sierra Maestra stronghold enabled the movement...already created in the Sierra Maestra allowed them to recover from...opened at the other end of the Sierra Maestra, east of the provincial capital...and military role for the Sierras mountain guerrillas at the...
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The Defeat of Che Guevara: Military Response to Guerrilla Challenge in Bolivia
Book by Gary Prado SalmÓn; Praeger, 1990
Subjects: Bolivia--Ejaercito--Commando Troops--History--20th Century, Bolivia--History, Military, Bolivia--History--1938-1982, Guerrillas--Bolivia--History--20th Century, Guevara, Ernesto--1928-1967
...in Cuba. Ches lieutenant in the Sierra Maestra, Connected with Interior Ministry...escort. Veteran of the Sierra Maestra and the Escambray Second Front...Juan Vitalio Acuna Nunez Sierra Maestra veteran. Member of Central Committee...
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Castroism, Theory and Practice
Book by Theodore Draper; Frederick A. Praeger, 1965
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--1927-, Communism--Cuba, Cuba--History--1933-1959, Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959
...out of all Latin America or to make a Sierra Maestra out of all Cuba. The supreme paradox of the Sierra Maestra complex is that it bases the most advanced...and again are the Moncada and Sierra Maestra episodes. At one time, it seemed as...
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journal articles on: Sierra Maestra  - 28 results

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Voices from the Sierra Maestra: Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Propaganda
Journal article by Russel J. Hampsey; Military Review, Vol. 82, 2002
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, Cuba, History, Propaganda, Revolutions
Voices from the Sierra Maestra: Fidel Castros Revolutionary Propaganda...infrastructure in his sector of the Sierra Maestra-E1 Hombrito. Guevaras action demonstrated...movements that the main effort was in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Castro understood the...
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Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground
Journal article by Luis Martinez-Fernandez; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Book)--Book reviews
...fighters stationed in the Sierra Maestra were the primary force...activities beyond the Sierra Maestra, including the urban...Guevaras preferred foco (sierra-focused) guerrilla...operating outside the Sierra Maestra was as important, if...
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Behold the Man
Journal article by J. Hoberman; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 85, 2009
Subjects: Bolivia, Cuba, Guevara, Ernesto (1928-67), Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Personal profiles, Public figures, Revolutions
...Guevara first as a victorious guerrilla leader in the Sierra Maestra and then, a decade later, as a defeated guerrilla...two original guerrillas who followed Castro into the Sierra Maestra only twelve survived to see the victorious revolution...
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The Cubalogues (And After): on the Beat Literary Movement and the Early Cuban Revolution
Journal article by Todd F. Tietchen; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 63, 2007
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, Children & youth, Cold War, Cuba, Disposable income, Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Foreign policy, History, Literature, Political activism, Revolutions, Spanish-American War, United States, Youth culture
...film documentary "Rebels of the Sierra Maestra: The Story of Cubas Jungle Fighters...significantly on a train ride to the Sierra Maestra as he was confronted by...makes several stops on the way to Sierra Maestra, and at Matanzas and Colon...
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Rethinking the Cuban Adjustment Act and the U.S. National Interest
Journal article by Joyce A. Hughes, Alexander L. Alum; St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 23, 2011
Subjects: Aliens--Laws, regulations and rules, Asylum, Right of--Laws, regulations and rules, Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act of 1966, National security--Laws, regulations and rules, Refugees--Laws, regulations and rules, Right of asylum--Laws, regulations and rules
...fellow barbudos (13) descended victoriously from the Sierra Maestra mountains, where they had waged a guerrilla war against...in Oriente, Castro and his men dispersed into the Sierra Maestra Mountains. (18) As unlikely as it may seem, this...
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magazine articles on: Sierra Maestra  - 44 results

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Fidel after 40
Magazine article by Jack Skelly; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, January 25, 1999
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--Biography, Cuba--History
...Fidel Castro emerged from the Sierra Maestra to establish a Communist dictatorship...garrison located very near the Sierra Maestra mountains. The landing...first major encounter outside the Sierra Maestra mountains. "Neither Fidel nor...
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On Revolutionary Medicine
Magazine article; Monthly Review, Vol. 56, January 2005
Subjects: Cuba--Health policy, Guevara, Ernesto--Speeches, lectures and essays, Socialized medicine--Speeches, lectures and essays
...Those of you who went to the Sierra Maestra on the twenty-sixth of July must...authentic children of the Sierra Maestra, the most authentic offspring...in different parts of the Sierra Maestra, and also in the cooperatives...
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Cuba and the United States: A Personal Reflection on Thirty-Five Years of Conflict
Magazine article by Mike Faulkner; Monthly Review, Vol. 47, February 1996
Subjects: Cuba, Cuban foreign relations--United States, United States, United States foreign relations--Cuba
...overalls and packed off to the Sierra Maestra in Oriente province, to the eastern...peasant families of the Sierra Maestra where there had previously been...highest mountain in the Sierra Maestra. The proceedings went on until...
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The Unexpected Lives of Fidel Castro
Magazine article by Georgie Anne Geyer; World and I, Vol. 16, May 2001
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--Behavior, Cuba--Political aspects, Geyer, Georgie Anne--Authorship, Guerilla Prince: the Untold Story of Fidel Castro (Television program)
...Sanchez, who was with him in the Sierra Maestra and later became his influential...he could not do without. In the Sierra, she had loved him, almost surely...stayed in the rough mountains of the Sierra Maestra, hiding from the army...
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Cuba's African Adventures: In 1959 Fidel Castro Came to Power in Cuba after a Masterly Campaign of Guerrilla Warfare. Drawing on This Success, Castro and His Followers, Including Che Guevara, Sought to Spread Their Revolution, as Clive Foss Explains
Magazine article by Clive Foss; History Today, Vol. 60, March 2010
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--Influence, Guerrilla warfare--History, Revolutionaries--Influence, Revolutionists--Influence
...Marti and by Karl Marx. From a remote base in the Sierra Maestra mountains, he defeated the armies of the dictator...rebellion. This drew on the Cubans own experience in the Sierra Maestra, a parallel that turned out to be misleading, even...
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newspaper articles on: Sierra Maestra  - 32 results

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7 NIGHTS; Why Stay in? Here's Our Tips for the Week
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), March 21, 2010
Subjects: Comedians
...to release her debut single Once in April. Starts 7pm. Tickets pounds 10, call 0141 847 0820. SAT Sierra Maestra Cuban band Sierra Maestra have played a huge role in the global explosion of Cuban music. Recalling the 1920s heyday of the popular...
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Castro's Apologist, Renowned Composer
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 22, 2006
Subjects: Composers, Stravinsky, Igor
...WASHINGTON TIMES n a clearing near the peak of one of Cubas Sierra Maestra mountains is a three-foot marble monument noting...Matthews was proud of his mission to Castro in the Sierra Maestra. He criticized other journalists for getting the...
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Albums; Music
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 19, 2010
Subjects: Sound recordings
...might be played he waiting room to get into hell. SIERRA MAESTRA Sonando Ya Some music is instant, immediately making...any other year, would be hard to find. UPLIFTING: Sierra Maestra ALL AT SEA: Gabriella
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On the Road: It's Just Too Much!
Newspaper article by Geoff Harden; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), November 21, 1997
...songwriters package in the Whitla Hall on Monday and Sierra Maestra in the Ulster Hall tomorrow. Check out the Festival...Armagh (2.30pm), Glengannon Hotel (8pm). Sierra Maestra - Ulster Hall. Michiel Borstlap - Guinness Spot...
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Fidel Castro Undergoes Surgery, Names Brother Appoints His Brother Raul
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 2, 2006
Subjects: Castro, Fidel
...visiting earlier this month Castros hideout atop the Sierra Maestra mountains, from where his guerrillas swept down to...like Mario Bruqueta, who fought with Castro in the Sierra Maestra, worry about the future without their "irreplaceable...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sierra Maestra  - 7 results

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Maestra, Sierra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAESTRA, SIERRA mountains, Cuba: see Sierra Maestra . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sierra Maestra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIERRA MAESTRA sya ra maa stra, rugged mountain range, SE Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. Consisting of connecting ranges with local names, the Sierra Maestra is the highest system of Cuba. It is rich in minerals, especially...
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Cuba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...three mountain regions: the wild and rugged Sierra Maestra in the east, rising to 6,560 ft (2...Pico Turquino; a lower range, the scenic Sierra de los Organos, in the west; and the Sierra de Trinidad, a picturesque mass of hills...
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Castro, Fidel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...including his brother Raul and Ernesto "Che" Guevara , survived the initial encounter and hid in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra . There, they organized a guerrilla campaign that eventually toppled the Batista regime on Jan. 1, 1959. Widely...
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Cobre, El
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COBRE, EL el ko bra, town, Santiago de Cuba prov., SE Cuba, in a high valley of the Sierra Maestra. Once famous for rich copper mines (hence the name El Cobre), it is chiefly noted for a shrine to Our Lady of Charity ( La...
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