The dictatorship of President Batista caught the attention of a young lawyer named Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, or better known as Fidel Castro. To protest President Batista, Castro formed and led a small group called M-26-7. The name of this group symbolized the group's attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba on July 26, 1953. This marked the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. The attack failed and many attackers, including leader Fidel Castro, were imprisoned while others fled the country and a few were killed in the attack. After being tried, on October 16, 1953, Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Presidio Modelo infirmary while giving his speech History Will Absolve Me. However, on May 15, 1955, Castro and the rest of the prisoners were released after President Batista deemed it posed no threat. Upon his release from prison, Castro's main goal was to strengthen the M-26-7. Later that year, Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro fled Cuba to avoid arrest after the 1955 attacks. Fidel said the reason for his departure was that all doors to peaceful struggle were closed to him . The brothers traveled to Mexico where Raúl befriended a doctor and Marxist-Leninist named Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Also in Mexico, Castro met with an anti-Batista group composed mainly of students. This group was called Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE) and was founded by a student named José Antonio Echeverría. Since both the DRE and Castro were against President Batista, they offered their support to Castro. However, Castro refused. In November 1956, Fidel bought a yacht called Granma and on November 25, he was...... middle of paper ...... and President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba. He is also Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Army, Navy and Air Force and is also First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2011. Fulgencio Batista has lived in various cities in Portugal and has written books for the rest of his life. On August 6, 1973, he died of a heart attack while in Guadalmina, near Marbella, Spain and was buried in the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid. On October 8, 1967, Bolivian soldiers captured Che Guevara in Bolivia. Bolivian President René Barrientos ordered Guevara's execution. This execution was requested and carried out the next day by Bolivian army sergeant Mario Terán. Terán called for Guevara's execution because three of his friends, all with the same first name "Mario", had been killed in an earlier firefight with Guevara's band of guerrillas..