Batista responded with an all-out-attack, Operation Verano, in which the army aerially bombarded forested areas and villages suspected of aiding the militants, while 10,000 soldiers commanded by General Eulogio Cantillo surrounded the Sierra Maestra, driving north to the rebel encampments
Batista anabwenza ndi kubwenzera chiwembucho mwankokomo kudzera munkhondo yotchedwa Verano kumene asilikali ankhondo anaononga kuchokera mmwamba makamaka midzi imene inali mkatikati mwankhalango, komwenso amawaganizira kuti amathandizira magulu ankhondo. panthawi yomweyo, asilikali okwana zikwi khumi, ,motsogozedwa ndi nkulu oyangan asilikali ankhondo Eulogilo Cantillo anazinga dera la Sierra Maestra ndikumapita ku dela lakumpoto kwa kumene kunali malo osungirako akaidi ambiri