History Will Absolve Me is the concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks. Though no record of Castro's words was kept, he reconstructed them later for publication in what was to become the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement.

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  • History Will Absolve Me is the concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks. Though no record of Castro's words was kept, he reconstructed them later for publication in what was to become the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement. The trial helped propel Castro into the public consciousness as a leading figure in the resistance to the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Though sentenced to terms of up to 15 years for their roles in the Moncada attack, all of the rebels were released after an amnesty in 1955. Castro relocated to Mexico before returning to Cuba on the Granma yacht alongside other revolutionaries including Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Together they fomented the Cuban revolution that was to take power in 1959.
  • La Historia me absolverá constituye el alegato de autodefensa de Fidel Castro ante el juicio en su contra comenzado el 16 de octubre de 1953 por los asaltos a los cuarteles Moncada y Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, en Santiago de Cuba y Bayamo respectivamente, sucedidos el 26 de julio anterior. Ante este juicio Fidel Castro, entonces licenciado en Derecho Civil, decide asumir su propia defensa. En el documento, Castro señala lo que considera los males de la Cuba de entonces, resumidos en seis problemas fundamentales: El problema de la tierra, el problema de la industrialización, el problema de la vivienda, el problema del desempleo, el problema de la educación y el problema de la salud. Entre las cuestiones principales destacaba: El 85% de los pequeños agricultores cubanos pagaba renta y sufría la amenaza perenne del desalojo cuando más de la mitad de las mejores tierras estaban en poder de compañías extranjeras y un gran tanto por ciento de la población era analfabeta. 400.000 familias del campo y la ciudad vivían hacinadas y casi dos millones y medio de la población urbana pagaba altos alquileres por las casas que ocupaban. El 90% de los niños del campo eran devorados por los parásitos La existencia de más de un millón de desempleados.
  • A História me Absolverá é um documento que reúne o discurso de defesa de Fidel Castro por ocasião do julgamento no contexto do Assalto ao Quartel Moncada em 26 de julho de 1953.
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  • "A total of 29 rebels came up for trial in Santiago between 21 September and 16 October ; four (including Fidel's brother, Raúl) were sentenced to 13 years in prison, 20 to 10 years, three to three years, and the two women to seven months. Fidel Castro received a term of 15 years, following an extempore speech lasting four hours, 'History Will Absolve Me', which he wrote up in prison and smuggled out in matchboxes for publication. It soon became famous as the authoritative political manifesto of 'Castroism'." Source: Volker Skierka, ''Fidel Castro: A Biography''. Polity Press, 2004, p 36.
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  • History Will Absolve Me is the concluding sentence and subsequent title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks. Though no record of Castro's words was kept, he reconstructed them later for publication in what was to become the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement.
  • La Historia me absolverá constituye el alegato de autodefensa de Fidel Castro ante el juicio en su contra comenzado el 16 de octubre de 1953 por los asaltos a los cuarteles Moncada y Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, en Santiago de Cuba y Bayamo respectivamente, sucedidos el 26 de julio anterior. Ante este juicio Fidel Castro, entonces licenciado en Derecho Civil, decide asumir su propia defensa.
  • A História me Absolverá é um documento que reúne o discurso de defesa de Fidel Castro por ocasião do julgamento no contexto do Assalto ao Quartel Moncada em 26 de julho de 1953.
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