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Radio 4,22 Mar 2016,11 mins

Fidel Castro Takes Havana

Witness History

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In January 1959 the rebel leader entered Cuba's capital city. The US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista had fled and Castro immediately set about establishing his left-wing revolution. Carlos Alzugaray was then a teenager, and one of thousands of people who turned out to greet him.

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