Chronology

He participates together with Haydee Santamaría, Melba Hernández, Luis Bonito Milián, Ñico López, Pedro Miret, José Suárez Blanco, Pedro Celestino Aguilera, Armando Hart and Faustino Pérez in the establishment of the National Leadership of the July 26th Revolutionary Movement in the house located in Factoria street Nomber 62, between Apodaca and Corrales, Old Havana Section. During the meeting the decision is made that given the circumstances in Cuba, Fidel must leave for Mexico with part of the movement’s leadership to prepare a group of men with which the armed struggle against the dictatorship would begin.

At 8:00 pm he visits the studios of Unión Radio again, in the company of Luis Orlando Rodríguez and Pedro Iglesias Betancourt, after the week long suspension on the "Orthodox Hour” radio program is completed. He is prevented from speaking again after another resolution of the Ministry of Communications authorizing the program to continue only if Fidel does not speak.

Oppressive regime forces lead by police chief, Brigadier Salas Cañizares, assault and occupy by force the premises of La Calle newspaper. They seize the day’s issues of the newspaper and arrest the assistant director and two employees. The newspaper La Calle is closed for good. In the linotypes was the last article written by Fidel for the new outlet entitled, "It is impossible to live here” unpointing.

He appears in the Emergency Court to deliver a letter, denouncing the government members’ intent to murder his brother Raul, as part of a plot of provocations against him started from the moment he was released, with the ultimate goal of depriving him of life. He points out the master minds of this plan to be Colonels Alberto del Río Chaviano and Conrado Carratalá, with the assistance of gangsters and gunmen at the service of the regime.

He meets the Santiago de Cuba teacher María Antonia Figueroa and her mother, Cayita Araújo, in Melba Hernández apartment, to analyze various issues related to the organization of the movement in the eastern province of Oriente and the immediate tasks ahead to carry out the insurrection. The meeting is attended also by Melba Hernández and Haydeé Santamaría, Jesús Montané, Pedro Miret, Faustino Pérez and Armando Hart.

In the afternoon of this day he visits the editorial office of Bohemia magazine accompanied by Ñico López and Pedro Miret with a copy of his article "It is impossible to live here", with the purpose of letting it be known through that news outlet. However due to fear of reprisals Bohemia director, Miguel Ángel Quevedo, refuses to publish it.

He says off his brother Raul Castro at Havana’s Rancho Boyeros airport who is traveling to Mexico.

He goes to Bohemia magazine headquarters to meet journalist Rodolfo Rodríguez Zaldívar, who was working on a survey about the probable return of former president Prío to Cuba. He answers some questions and leaves him with the farewell statements he just wrote, which would be later published in the next issue of the magazine.

He visits Carmen Castro Porta, in Paseo Avenue and 25 streets, to read to the Martian Women his farewell statement. in the afternoon he meets in a cafeteria located at the intersection of L and 21st with José Antonio Echeverría and Fructuoso Rodríguez, President and Vice President of the University Students Federation, to inform them of his decision to leave for Mexico and coordinate efforts in the fight against tyranny

He arrives in Mexico City by bus from Veracruz. He is received by his brother Raúl, María Antonia González, Fernando Margolles and the Mexican woman Alicia Zaragoza. From that night on he stays in a small room on Ramón Guzmán Street, No. 6, where his brother was staying. Raul goes to live at María Antonia’s apartment.

Bohemia magazine publishes an article under the title Bohemia Surveys with a series of interviews.