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unusual facts about yacht ''Granma''



Cuban Criollo horse

Most Cubano de Paso are bred in the ranch La Loma in the Cuban province, Granma.

Esme Melville

At the Tropfest awards for 2003 she won Best Actor – Female for her role of Granma in the short film, Forbidden.

Granma Province

The province takes its name from the yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2nd, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the larger "Oriente Province".

Manuel Vega

Manuel Vega Tamayo (born in Niquero, Cuba) is a right-handed pitcher who plays for Granma of the Cuban National Series.

Norberto Collado Abreu

Collado Abreu captained the Granma, which carried a total of 82 prominent supporters of the Cuban Revolution, including Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara, from Mexico to its landing site in Granma Province in western Cuba.

The Granma set sail under Castro on the night of November 25, 1956, from the Veracruz port city of Tuxpan.

Norberto Collado Abreu (c. 1921 – April 2, 2008) was the Cuban captain and helmsman of the yacht Granma, which ferried Fidel Castro and 81 supporters to Cuba from Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, in 1956.

Pedro Medel

Pedro Luis Medel Aguilera (Granma, 10 September 1991) is a Cuban swimmer.

Río Cauto

Río Cauto, Cuba, a municipality and City in Granma Province, Cuba

States Rights Records

Bobby Birdman, Yacht, Lucky Dragons, The Blow, The Dirty Projectors, White Rainbow and others have released on States Rights Records.

Tuxpan

Tuxpan was also the port of departure for the yacht Granma that was used to transport Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl, Che Guevara and other fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista.


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