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| combatant2 = '''{{flag|Cuba|name=Government of Cuba}}'''<br />'''Supported by''':<br />{{flag|Soviet Union}}
| commander1 = {{flagdeco|Cuba|1902}} [[Osvaldo Ramírez García|Osvaldo Ramírez]]{{KIA}}<br /> {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate.svg}} [[William Alexander Morgan|William A. Morgan]]{{Executed}}<br /> {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate.svg}} [[Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo]]{{POW}}<br />Sinesio Walsh{{POW}}{{sfnp|Brown|2017|loc=Paragraph 35}}
| commander2 = {{flagicon|Cuba}} [[Fidel Castro
| units1 = {{circa}} 177 outlawed groups{{sfnp|Brown|2017|loc=Paragraph 78}}
* Former [[Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil|DRE]] guerrillas
* {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Revolutionary Directorate.svg}} Remnants of the [[Second National Front of Escambray]]
| units2 = [[File:FAR emblem.svg|20px]] [[Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces]]<br />[[National Revolutionary Militia]]<br />Department of State Security{{sfnp|Brown|2017|loc=Paragraph 39}}
| strength1 = 2,000{{sfnp|Brown|2017|loc=Paragraph 78}}–3,995<ref name="Swanger, p. 243">Swanger, p. 243</ref> combatants<br />6,000+ collaborators{{sfnp|Brown|2017|loc=Paragraph 78}}
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==Beginning==
The uprising began almost immediately after the success of the [[Cuban Revolution]] in 1959. It was led by an ex-guerrilla that had fought against Batista before, but rejected the socialist turn the Cuban Revolution had taken and the ensuing close ties with the [[Soviet Union]]. Small landowning farmers, who disagreed with the socialist government's collectivization of Cuban farmlands also played a central role in the failed rebellion. The uprising was also secretly backed by the [[CIA]] and the [[Eisenhower administration]] because of Castro's ties with the Soviet Union.<ref name="Warner, Michael">{{Cite book|title=The CIA's internal probe of the Bay of Pigs affair|last=Warner
The insurgent ''guajiro'' rural farmers were aided by some former [[Fulgencio Batista|Batista]] forces but were led mostly by former [[Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil|DRE]] rebels (13 March Movement), such as the anti-communists Osvaldo Ramirez and Comandante [[William Alexander Morgan]], both of whom had fought Batista's ''casquitos'' in the same area only a few years before (Morgan himself was executed in 1961, long before the resistance ended).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/william-morgan.htm | title = William Morgan | publisher = Latin American Studies}}</ref> Ramirez and Morgan were viewed by the United States as potential pro-democracy options for Cuba and sent CIA-trained Cuban exiles to promote and spread word of them being an alternative to Castro.<ref name="Warner, Michael"/>
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