On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the "Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil" (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto "Ché" Guevara
History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro
To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
r/Communism Cuba and Fidel Castro Megathread
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lecture from Michael Parenti about Cuba
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Been reading about other advantage play strategies besides card counting because apparently counting cards is for suckers, starting with hunting around for "hole carding" opportunities. Seems like I might actually be genetically disadvantaged at this because I'm tall??
You could try being an advantage play person at Dave and busters and go on Wednesdays
Card counting was generally proven to work that's why most casinos made thr games so you can't really do it. It is also hard so casinos emcourge you to try to you will mess up and lose money in the long run. I don't think if anything else works well people are trying to share the gimmick
Card counting Blackjack works fine and it's easy to find games where you can do it - but that's also why casino security is so good at spotting counters and therefore limiting your ability to play (I've been banned from about a dozen casinos myself, including being stopped at the door by security before I could play one hand). The other problem is that the player advantage is only 2-3% over the house - enough to make money, but very swingy.
There are other AP opportunities being exploited in basically every single game that's out there. Hole carding, for example, can net a player advantage of 10, 20, or even 100% over the house if you can find the right game (Mississippi Stud is the game most vulnerable to it, but finding one is the Holy Grail cuz of course casino security knows that too). I've been hunting for an opportunity to do it in Ultimate Texas Hold 'em, cuz I've read that doing it in 3 Card Poker can be really painful.
There's also a lot of side bets that are vulnerable, stuff like Dragon 7s in Baccarat can be worth counting even if you have to play a Baccarat (a game which can theoretically be counted but for an even smaller return than blackjack) as the cost of entry. I myself made a bunch of money beating the blackjack "tie the dealer" side bet last year before the only place I know that offers it banned me.
Anyway I'm currently reading "advanced advantage play" by Eliot Jacobson which talks about this stuff, next on my docket is Katarina Walker's book on Spanish 21 which I've heard is a lot harder than blackjack but can apparently be beaten without moving your bets up and down (and therefore without alerting casino security).
That is untresting to hear the modern state of the art for that kind of thing