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Carlos Prío and Fidel Castro in Miami
After the 1952 Cuban coup d'état where President Carlos Prío Socarrás was overthrown, Prio fled to Mexico and then Miami. While living in Miami Prio frequently held meetings conceptualizing the overthrow of new dictator Fulgencio Batista. In 1955 Fidel Castro visited Miami to raise funds for his new rebel army and obtained a financial donation from Prio to fund his Granma expedition. As Castro's rebel army continued it's campaign in Cuba, dissidents in Miami were rendered as merely a support base for the leadership of the revolution inside Cuba. Miami dissidents would soon develop a desire to steer leadership back to their hands.

Schism with Che Guevara
The publishing of the Miami Pact in Novmeber suggested to Che Guevara that Fidel Castro had allied with the more moderate wing of the opposition. Guevara viewed the pact as antithetical to the views of Fidel Castro and in support of Che's ideological enemies René Ramos and Armando Hart. He had previously suspected that both were purposely undersupplying his rebel column. On December 9, 1957 Guevara penned a letter to Castro demanding permission to deal with his saboteurs and an explanation for the Miami Pact or he would resign. Four days later Castro would respond that he did not give permission for the Miami Pact to be signed. Guevara would remain in the rebel army.