Together with his brother Armando Hart and Faustino Pérez, he was the founder of the National Revolutionary Movement, an organization that emerged with the objective of confronting the Batista dictatorship. This organization was headed by Rafael García Bárcenas, a university professor with democratic, nationalist and anti-imperialist ideas. He later became linked to members of the 26th of July Movement, held various responsibilities and participated in different actions.

Armando Hart Dávalos.

He was an outstanding politician and intellectual who was a member of the National Directorate of the 26th of July Movement. After the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 he was appointed Minister of Education. When the Cuban Communist Party was created in 1965, he was elected member of its Central Committee and the Political Bureau. In 1976 he was appointed Minister of Culture until 1997 when he became director of the Office of the Martiano Program. As an intellectual he had an extensive work dedicated to the study of the historical figure and thought of José Martí.

Faustino Pérez Hernández.

From a humble background, he managed to study medicine at the University of Havana with great sacrifice. In 1955 he was a member of the national leadership of the 26th of July Movement and the following year he was part of the expedition of the Granma yacht with the rank of Captain. After the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, he was appointed head of the Ministry for the Recovery of Embezzled Goods. Years later, he headed the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, a position from which he contributed to the development of this institution.

26th of July Movement

It was a Cuban armed, political and military organization created informally in 1953 by a group led by Fidel Castro that assaulted the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks in eastern Cuba in order to begin the armed struggle to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista. It had a nationalist ideology based on the supposed ideas of José Martí.