However, due to choppy weather, the Granma had landed two days late on 2nd December, and as a result, the supporting uprising was left isolated and was quickly destroyed.

The main targets were the Police Station located on the Intendente Hill, near the well-known “Calle Padre Pico.” Jose “Pepito” Tey and Otto Parellada led this commando assault (they both died in the attack).

Jorge Sotús and Roberto Roca led the attack on the other major target at the Naval District headquarters, located by the bay in Michaelsen Avenue.

They cut power lines, sabotaged railroad tracks and bridges, but by midafternoon, the army began retaking the city and crushed the uprising.

The uprising on 30 November led by a band of young rebels in Santiago de Cuba became major in the struggle to overthrow the dictatorship, finally attained on 1 January 1959.