Museo de la Revolución
Former presidential palace with bullet-scarred stairways and the overloaded rebel yacht that launched a revolution.
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This guide to the Museo de la Revolución in Havana, once Cuba's presidential palace, follows two attempts to overturn the same government. It opens with the Granma, a leaking cabin cruiser built for twelve that carried eighty-two men, including Fidel Castro and a young Ernesto Guevara, on a rough weeklong crossing from Mexico in November nineteen fifty-six that ended in a mangrove swamp and an ambush. It also revisits March thirteenth, nineteen fifty-seven, when student revolutionaries stormed these same stairs after President Fulgencio Batista, who lived and worked in this building. Look for the bullet holes beside the staircase, left unpatched on purpose.
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