Many casualties ensued, most of them during battle at Alegría de Pío further inland. Since the terrain on the coastline provided little cover, the party was an easy target. Consequentially, the landing party was bombarded by helicopters and airplanes soon after landing. –Che Guevara īatista correctly predicted that the landing would take place, and his troops were ready. Exactly 10 days after our departure from Mexico, during the early morning hours of December 5, following a night-long march interrupted by fainting and frequent rest periods, we reached a spot paradoxically known as Alegría de Pío (Rejoicing of the Pious). We had been through seven days of constant hunger and sickness during the sea crossing, topped by three still more terrible days on land. We reached solid ground, lost, stumbling along like so many shadows or ghosts marching in response to some obscure psychic impulse. The location was chosen to emulate the voyage of national hero José Martí, who had landed in the same region 61 years earlier during the wars of independence from Spanish colonial rule. Granma was piloted by Norberto Collado Abreu, a World War II Cuban Navy veteran and ally of Castro.
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After a series of vicissitudes and misadventures, including diminishing supplies, sea-sickness, and the near-foundering of their heavily laden and leaking craft, they disembarked on December 2 on the Playa Las Coloradas, municipality of Niquero, in modern Granma Province (after the vessel), formerly part of the larger Oriente Province. The group-who later came to be known collectively as los expedicionarios del yate Granma (the Granma yacht expeditioners)-then set out from Tuxpan at 2 a.m. Shortly after midnight on November 25, 1956, in the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, Granma was surreptitiously boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July movement including their leader, Fidel Castro, his brother, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, and Camilo Cienfuegos. The money to purchase Granma had been raised in the US state of Florida by former President of Cuba Carlos Prío Socarrás and Teresa Casuso Morín. It is still unknown who removed the light armor and expanded the cabin postwar to convert the navy training boat into a civilian yacht.Ĭastro's 26th of July Movement had attempted to purchase a Catalina flying boat maritime aircraft, or a US naval crash rescue boat for the purpose of crossing the Gulf of Mexico to Cuba, but their efforts had been thwarted by lack of funds. The builder, Wheeler Shipbuiding, then of Brooklyn, New York, now of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, also built Hemingway's Pilar. The yacht was purchased on October 10, 1956, for MX$50,000 (US$15,000) from the United States-based Schuylkill Products Company, Inc., by a Mexican citizen-said to be Mexico City gun dealer Antonio "The Friend" del Conde -secretly representing Fidel Castro.
The route of Granma from Tuxpan to Playa Las Coloradas
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