The life and travels of the revolutionary before he was known as Che, from his birth in Argentina to blue blooded parents to meeting Fidel in Mexico as a wandering political seeker.
Castro's first truly revolutionary act against a Batista regime will hurl him on a path he cannot walk back from. It will be a complete, embarrassing failure.
In this episode I take a break from Cuban history to explain Marxism as we get closer to the revolution. Indebted to Alex Callinicos's The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx for helping me summarize the theory.
Cuba enters the rough 1930s, a decade marred by violence, economic contraction, and barracks rule. It exits with a new, progressive constitution, and a Republic.
In this episode we finally bring the United States into the war, turning the struggle for Cuban Independence into an international war between industrialized powers. We finally see the Cubans achieve some sort of independence.