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The War Against the Bandits ('''Escambray Revolt''') was a rebellion against the Revolutionary Government of (Priestland, 2003), starting in 1959 and continuing until about 1965. This war lasted longer and involved far more insurgents and Castro militia than the original Castro forces and Batista soldiers in the war against Batista. The insurgents were mainly country folk, including former Batista forces, or followers of the anti-communist also provided limited and often ineffective (e.g. wrong caliber ammunition) aid to the insurgents during much of the revolt, and finally withheld all support. Some of these failures could be attributed to Castro’s “roll up” of CIA operatives in Cuba (Volkman, 1995). Castro forces tactics consisted of sweeps of several very long lines of militia, a circumstance that caused heavy government losses, but ultimately won the war. Castro employed over 250,000 troops at one time {Link without Title} (see Puebla). Often the insurgents broke through but the attrition of this unequal combat for the much smaller insurgent forces (at most 4,000 in total, Puebla) decided the war. The insurgency was finally suppressed by massive use of militia, numerous executions, arrests and internal deportations to “closed” towns in the westernmost province of Pinar del Rio, a common tactic Second Boer War and USSR among governments being attacked by insurgents. After the Bay of Pigs Castro started de facto (Priestland, 2003) and later formalized food rationing throughout the whole country. Thus the remaining insurgents were left starving, and as a result some of them surrendered only to be executed, while others fought to the death. A few escaped {Link without Title} . SOURCES Castro sources include:
Anti-Castro sources include the books of Enrique Ros .
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