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    The Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast...
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  • Sierra Maestra Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Sierra Maestra) (IATA: MZO, ICAO: MUMZ) is a regional airport that serves the city of Manzanillo...
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    exiting the ship, the band of rebels began to make their way into the Sierra Maestra mountains, a range in southeastern Cuba. Three days after the trek began...
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  • near to Los Cayuelos. Attacked by Batista's forces, they fled to the Sierra Maestra mountain range, where the 19 survivors set up an encampment from which...
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    Revolution. At the end of 1956, Castro established a guerrilla base in the Sierra Maestra. This base defeated the troops of Batista on 1 January 1959, setting...
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    leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political...
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    Sierra Maestra are a Cuban band started in 1976. They sought to revive 1920s classic son, which came from the mountain range on the east of Cuba, after...
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  • Sierra Maestra is a Cuban newspaper. It is published in Spanish, with an online English edition. The newspaper is located in Santiago de Cuba. Sierra...
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    Cuban General Cantillo to directly attack Castro's mountain base in the Sierra Maestra. The battle ended with the humiliating surrender of the assault battalion...
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    (6,476 ft), part of the Sierra Maestra mountain range, located in the southeast of the island. Other mountain ranges are Sierra Cristal in the southeast...
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  • Andalusia, Spain Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico Sierra Maestra, a mountain range in Cuba Sierra Leone, a country...
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  • Eleutherodactylus maestrensis is a species of frogs in the family Eleutherodactylidae endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist...
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    regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid...
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  • known as Sierra Maestra National Park, is a national park in Santiago de Cuba Province, southeastern Cuba. The park is located in the Sierra Maestra mountain...
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    on 2 December 1956, the 26th of July Movement made its way into the Sierra Maestra, where they were ambushed in a cane field [es] by the Cuban National...
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    Tobago Sierra de Baoruco, Dominican Republic Sierra de Cayey, Puerto Rico Sierra de Luquillo, Puerto Rico Sierra del Escambray, Cuba Sierra Maestra, Cuba...
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  • revolutionary army, which had been growing in strength in the area of the Sierra Maestra mountains since their arrival in Cuba on board the Granma yacht in December...
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  • in Cuba. It is located in the southeast part of the island, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in the municipality of Guamá, Santiago de Cuba Province...
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  • Militares. It was named after the code name used by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra, which was also his middle name. The Alejandro is a bolt-action precision...
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    Caribbean Plate. It extends from the Windward Passage, going south of the Sierra Maestra of Cuba toward Guatemala. The transform fault continues onshore as the...
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    revolutionaries survived to re-group as a bedraggled fighting force deep in the Sierra Maestra mountains, where they received support from the urban guerrilla network...
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  • Fidel Castro's guerrilla forces which were conducting activities in the Sierra Maestra mountains. País was killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by the...
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  • Cuban military, led by Fulgencio Batista, since the latter settled in Sierra Maestra. On May 28, 1957, Fidel Castro made the decision to attack a military...
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  • Tal’s captured operatives are being held at a CIA black site in the Sierra Maestra, which Dean Merriman was researching. Keaton reaches out to Laine’s...
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    Dominican Republic. By late 1958, the rebels had broken out of the Sierra Maestra and launched a general popular insurrection. After Castro's fighters...
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    eastern highlands of the island of Cuba, inhabiting both the Sierra Nipe-Cristal and Sierra Maestra mountain ranges. The closely related Hispaniolan pine (P...
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  • fled to eastern Cuba, where they settled in forested areas around the Sierra Maestra. Later, amid the turmoil of the Haitian Revolution that overthrew French...
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    immigrants that established coffee plantations in the high mountains of the Sierra Maestra. New Orleans authorities moved their death mask in 1853. During the...
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    were young recruits. Cantillo surrounded the mountain range of the Sierra Maestra, and set up roadblocks to prevent supplies from getting to the guerrillas...
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  • Pinus maestrensis, commonly known as the Sierra Maestra pine, or Pinus × maestrensis, is a hybrid conifer in the family Pinaceae. It is endemic to Cuba...
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