Bonus Episode 136 Castro Returns from Exile Voyage of Granma

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Episode 136 is another Bonus Episode. We cover the story of Castro in Mexico just prior to his return from exile and the celebrated voyage from Mexico to Cuba on the Granma, a converted yacht. It was a trip he made with 81 other revolutionaries in rough seas and treacherous conditions and it took place over a seven day period at sea. It was Castro's treacherous return from exile to again set foot on Cuba and eventually wage a successful g...

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0:00.0	Cocco Seco
0:02.0	Coco Seco
0:04.0	Cocoa
0:05.0	Cocoa The Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:50.5	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
1:04.6	Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:08.8	Yes, it's yet another bonus episode, one that I promised you a couple of
1:14.1	episodes back. I do have one error correction from a prior episode before we jump in today.
1:21.6	Recently, I indicated that Fidel and Che Guevarez met each other in prison in Mexico,
1:27.0	and that was not the case.
1:29.0	They knew each other and were engaged and associated with each other before that moment.
1:34.1	Sorry for that slip-up.
1:36.2	Today's story is the story of Castro's voyage on the yacht that was named Grandma,
1:42.6	a ship that would ingloriously take he and 81 other rebels
1:46.8	from the shores of Mexico where they were exiled to a re-emergence on the shores of Cuba in
1:53.7	December, 1956. It's another interesting story of the Odyssey that was Fidel Castro and another important pivot point
2:03.3	during the revolution. And it's the last bonus episode before we fast forward and move on to
2:10.4	Castro's efforts in 1959 to nationalize foreign assets, mostly American assets, and make the explicit pivot toward communism.
2:22.4	Again, for today's episode, we're going to read directly from and refer to the rich
2:28.1	storytelling about this topic that is contained in Tad Sizalk's book entitled Fidel. It's a wonderful book, and I would
2:36.3	encourage everyone to get a copy of it and read it in its totality. This is the last of the bonus
2:42.1	episodes that cover the time frame through the end of 1958, which was the point at which Castro's
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