Castro's guerrillas increased their attacks on military outposts, forcing the government to withdraw from the Sierra Maestra region, and by spring 1958, the rebels controlled a hospital, schools, a printing press, slaughterhouse, land-mine factory and a cigar-making factory
gulu lachiwembu lotsogozedwa ndi Castro lidapitilizabe kuchititra chiwembu nthambi zin'gongozin'gono ndipo izi zidampangitsa kutiboma lichoke kudera la Sierra Maestrandipo pofika  mchilimwe chachaka cha 1958, achifwambawo  adaika chipatala, malo ophunzilira, nyumba zosindikiza mabuku, mophera nyama, nyumba yopanga mabomba komanso fakitole yopanga ndudu zapfosya zamderalo kukhala pansi paulamuliro wawo.