# Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president

Date: 1956

## The fact

On 2 December 1956 [Guevara](/people/che-guevara) landed in Oriente with the Granma expedition as later dated. The instrument is that armed landing, not a ministry and not a 1960 photograph. Che Guevara's documented role is: He boarded as a named combatant-medic. Castro commanded. [Batista](/people/joesley-batista)'s army and the yacht's failure share the landing's killing.

## Context

Fidel Castro is the named expedition commander. Sharing the yacht with Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, and unnamed fighters is required. The setting of Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president is the public file around 1956-12-02. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Che Guevara, Granma and Sierra Maestra at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: FRUS 1958–60 vol. VI — Cuba neighbourhood at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06 (U.S. Department of State / Office of the Historian). Official carrier: Britannica — Che Guevara, Granma and Sierra Maestra (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: FRUS 1958–60 vol. VI — Cuba neighbourhood (https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06; U.S. Department of State / Office of the Historian).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Che Guevara, Granma and Sierra Maestra (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president on 1956-12-02. An armed landing that opens a guerrilla war is a humanitarian-harm path of medium weight: he did not yet hold a ministry. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat the later Korda poster as this landing. Mixed effects of Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president under 1956-12-02 for Che Guevara. Established: a sourced public record of Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president under 1956-12-02.

Shared responsibility is part of Guevara lands with the Granma expedition as a dated armed-invasion participant, not as Cuba's president. Naming Che Guevara does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1956-12-02 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Che Guevara: https://factrail.ai/people/che-guevara

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/che-granma-1956