page_title: Havana Presidential Palace attack (1957)
section_title: Plan
hierarchical_section_title: Havana Presidential Palace attack (1957) / Plan
caption_attribution_description: English: The Presidential Cabinet in Museo de la Revolución in Havana, CubaPolski: Gabinet prezydentów w dawnym Pałacu Prezydenckim w Hawanie (Kuba), obecnie Muzeum Rewolucji (Museo de la Revolución)
context_page_description: The attack on the presidential palace in Havana took place at around 3:30 PM on the March 13, 1957. The Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil had the objective of killing Fulgencio Batista. The attack failed. According to one of the attackers, Faure Chomón of the Revolutionary Directorate, they were following the golpe arriba strategy and together with Menelao Mora Morales sought to overthrow the government by killing President Fulgencio Batista.
context_section_description: The plan, as explained by Faure Chaumón Mediavilla, was to attack the Presidential Palace by a commando  of fifty men and simultaneously support the operation by one hundred men occupying the radio station Radio Reloj at the Radiocentro CMQ Building to announce the death of Batista.  The attack on the palace would result in the elimination of Fulgencio Batista, the purpose of taking of Radio Reloj, was to announce the death of Batista and to call for a general strike, to incite the people of Havana to join the armed struggle.
  The plan to capture of the Presidential Palace by up of fifty men, under the direction of Carlos Gutiérrez Menoyo and Faure Chomón, this command was to be supported by a group of 100 armed men whose function would be to occupy the tallest buildings in the surrounding area of the Presidential Palace (La Tabacalera, the Sevilla Hotel, the Palace of Fine Arts) and, from these positions, support the main command taking over the Presidential Palace. However, this support operation was not carried out as the men who were to participate never arrived at the scene of the events because of last-minute hesitation. Although the revolutionaries reached the third floor of the Palace, they could not execute Batista.
  They spoke in code order to frustrate a potential infiltration or a divulging of the attack in any conversation, it had been agreed early on that they would refer to Palacios as "la casa de los tres kilos."
caption: An implied goal of the attack had been to penetrate to Batista's study located on the second floor at the northeast corner of the building.
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