2. After the attack on the Moncada barracks fails and Castro and his revolutionaries are released from prison, he begins gathering recruits to begin his revolutionary campaign in Mexico. Shortly thereafter, he and Che Guevara return to Cuba to start the revolution. The group that created these problems took the name of the 26 July Movement, from the name of the attack on the Moncada Barracks. During the trial for the Moncada Barracks bombing, Castro outlines the six problems of the Batista regime: foreign monopolies on land ownership, lack of industrialization, inadequate housing, high unemployment, poor education and deplorable health care. After Castro comes to power, he takes measures (e.g. the Five Revolutionary Laws, Agrarian Reform, Social Reform, etc.) to solve these problems.4. Fidel Castro implemented a series of agrarian and urban reform laws in the spring of 1959, at the beginning of Castro's rule. The First Urban Reform Law called for a 50% rent cut, which was good for farmers, but bad for landowners (like US corporations). The land reform law took land away from people who owned more than 1000 acres of land and gave it to the poor. It was bad for landowners, especially foreign ones, because they lost their land. On top of that, prices were controlled. The United States became concerned about these laws because they seemed communist in nature, and began imposing economic sanctions on Cuba, pushing Cuba closer to the Soviet Union. The First Havana Declaration was a speech given by Castro in September 1960, to express his desire to cut ties with the United States and instead move closer to the Soviet Union. In doing so, he stopped selling sugar to the United States, and... in the middle of a sheet of paper... a photo taken by a spy plane. Because the United States felt threatened by the missiles in Cuba, it confronted the Soviets and made a deal for both the United States and the Soviets to remove their potential posts. The historical significance is that the United States negotiated with the Soviet Union, not Cuba, and the missiles were removed from Cuba without Castro's consent. This made Castro think that the Soviet Union was imperialist and no better than the United States, which led to the Year of Decisive Effort.14. Castro's speech to the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party was a secret speech given by Castro to the CPP in January 1968, in which he expressed his disillusionment with the USSR, due to their lack of support for the Cuban revolution in the crisis of October. This is significant because this is when Castro severed ties with the Soviet Union.