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reforms instituted by the 26th of July Movement, and a YouTube video analysis by 2016 PSL Presidential Candidate Gloria La Riva. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9r323-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">On July 26, 1953, a group of about 135 rebels led by Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada Barracks during the violent regime
of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. This date was memorialized after working-class Cubans had rallied to implement socialist reforms following their revolutionary victory.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="vrr1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">John Vail wrote in his book, “Fidel Castro”, that the guerrillas’ actions received robust loyalty from working-class Cubans.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8nto6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" class=""><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;" class="">“The guerrillas had a dramatic impact on the lives of the campesinos. They pressured sugar mill owners to increase wages;
those who refused would be given 24 hours in which they could either reconsider or watch their mills burn to the ground. The rebels began to reeducate illiterate campesinos, and their hospital treated not only their own wounded, but peasant families as well.”</span></span></div>
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