On this date in 1959, the army led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos arrived in Havana, Cuba, just a day after the former president and US stooge Fulgencio Batista fled the country. A few days later, Manuel Urrutia was named the new revolutionary President of Cuba, and Fidel Castro arrived to help secure the capitol. Artwork below is our own, which you can buy prints of here:
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