Escambray

If the Escambray was the most representative place, that's where it all started; they managed to have armed bands in every province in the country.

30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE SECURITY ORGANS 1989

Front of the Escambray was a front only in name; it was a facade because its members exploited the campesinos, lived off them.

MEXICAN MAGAZINE HAS EXCLUSIVE WITH FIDEL 1966

Photos posted on the website of the local newspaper, Escambray, showed a large piece of the plane in flames, with rescue workers in olive-green military uniforms standing around it.

Cuba Plane Crash: AeroCaribbean Flight Goes Down With 68 Aboard AP 2010

The pilot reported an emergency shortly before the plane went down late Thursday, and a witness told a local newspaper, Escambray, the aircraft made several abrupt movements before the fiery crash.

All 68 Aboard Die in Cuba Plane Crash 2010

"Obama already admitted that his promise to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan may be postponed, and the taxes for the richest contributors suspended right away," the 84-year-old communist icon declares in a new piece titled "Reflections by Comrade Fidel," published on Cuba's digital news site Escambray on Tuesday and written in direct response to the Western alliance's weekend summit in Lisbon.

Fidel Castro: Barack Obama Is 'The Best Snake Charmer' Who Ever Lived The Huffington Post News Team 2010

"Obama already admitted that his promise to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan may be postponed, and the taxes for the richest contributors suspended right away," the 84-year-old communist icon declares in a new piece titled "Reflections by Comrade Fidel," published on Cuba's digital news site Escambray on Tuesday and written in direct response to the Western alliance's weekend summit in Lisbon.

Fidel Castro: Barack Obama Is 'The Best Snake Charmer' Who Ever Lived The Huffington Post News Team 2010

"Obama already admitted that his promise to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan may be postponed, and the taxes for the richest contributors suspended right away," the 84-year-old communist icon declares in a new piece titled "Reflections by Comrade Fidel," published on Cuba's digital news site Escambray on Tuesday and written in direct response to the Western alliance's weekend summit in Lisbon.

Fidel Castro: Barack Obama Is 'The Best Snake Charmer' Who Ever Lived The Huffington Post News Team 2010

For more than one and a half year before the invasion of Cuba, the Yankee administration fostered, armed and used counterrevolutionary bandits in the Escambray the same way it is now using the Colombian paramilitary forces against Venezuela.

The Annexation of Colombia to the US 2009

From the Miami Herald: Four decades ago, thousands of Cubans took to the Escambray mountains in a CIA-backed guerrilla war against Fidel Castro.

April 2006 2006

By then, he had already served under him as a machine-gunner in the Rebel Army, infiltrated the leadership of the counterrevolutionary bands in the Escambray hills, and joined Che again on his disastrous expedition to the Congo.

Fidel in the Evening Guillermoprieto, Alma 1998