As military campaigns go, it was an unmitigated failure in which he barely escaped with his life, but after a year's imprisonment, Castro travelled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the Movimiento 26 de Julio (26th of July Movement) to continue the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Cuban military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
As military campaigns go, it was an unmitigated failure in which he barely escaped with his life, but after a year's imprisonment, Castro travelled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, the Movimiento 26 de Julio (26th of July Movement) to continue the overthrow of the U.S.-backed Cuban military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.