Frank País

You know, they, they had, uh, links in all of the key industries, and they started building this thing up.

There's one inspiring anecdote that I, I remember about Frank País.

Uh, this was the, the leader of the worker section.

He was a, a young revolutionary.

You know, each of the cells, when you're doing underground work, it's like they're autonomous, and they're not in communication with each other.

They didn't know how many people they had.

So in 1956, in early 1956, before the landing of the Granma in, uh, Santiago, Frank País, uh, basically calls for all these groups to come out one night and graffiti anti-Batista messages all over the city, and it was a way to show them how much support they had because the next morning, to everybody's surprise, and to the regime's surprise, every single block was covered, "Down with Batista, Long live the M26-J." I mean, it suddenly, it, it, it gave them a sense of how much popular support they actually had, how much, uh, of a reach.

So this is part of the, the lead up to the struggle because it's not just the guerrilla battles that are happening in the countryside.