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He learned to read and write at Biran rural public school and continued elementary school at the private schools La Salle and Dolores in Santiago de Cuba. He started secondary school at the Dolores school and finished them at Colegio de Belen, a Jesuit-run institution in Havana, where he graduated in Arts and Letters in June He is going to study law and no doubt will fill the book of his life with brilliant pages.

There he immediately got involved in the political struggle as part of the students movements and held different positions at the Cuban University Students Federation FEU Spanish Language acronym. He was beaten up and jailed several times by repressive forces. Between July and September , while taking the third year at Law School he enrolled in the expedition organized to fight Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo regime.

The expedition trained at Cayo Confites in Oriente province. The Dominican Republic bound expedition was intercepted by a Cuban frigate after it sailed off. Fidel jumped overboard with his gun to prevent being captured. He considered it a disgrace that the expedition was seized without a fight. He fostered the most radical and combative stands among the young membership of the Party.

He joined that struggle with resolve and survived just by chance. He devoted his efforts to the defense of the poorest and most humble sectors of the people in his law office. He organized and trained a numerous contingent of over one thousand youth, mostly workers, employees, and students mainly from the ranks of the Orthodox party.

They could not achieve their goal since the element of surprise failed.