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Cuba was ruled by a very unpopular dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Under Batista, US companies owned two thirds of arable land and half of all sugar production and virtually all miner production, including oil and profits to the damage of the Cuban people. Cuban resentment led to a revolution which overthrew him in January 1959
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__**Ideal:**__ Fidel Castro led the Cuban revolution, many people had exaulted him for bringing social reforms and improving the economy. Castro had thought Batista's regime as a means in which popular national revolution can occur. In his trial he had declared "history will absolve me!" Fidel Castro was still sentenced 15 years in prison in Presido Modelo prison instead he served only two years. Fidel then went to Mexico in the face of assassination threats where he met Che Guevara where the newly established revolutionaries plotted how to overthrow Batista.

__**Outcome:**__ Within the liberated areas, Castro's rebel army had redistributed land and food along with subsequent attacks and strikes in other major cities. A frightened Batitsta fled the capital at 2am on January 1, 1959. A day later Army commanders Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara's forces arrived in Havana, followed by Fidel six days later. They were instantly celebrated as heros as millions of cheering Cubans came to recognize January 8, 1959 as the official day of the Cuban Revolution. Fidel was then Celebrated as the 22nd president of Cuba.