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Yacht, guerrilla group, province, park, and daily paper... the term Granma is far more polysemic than you ever imagined.
In Cuba, the location of the International Federation of Translators (IFT) 2022 Congress, Granma is the name of the 60-foot yacht that took Fidel Castro, his brother Raul, Che Guevara, and seventy-nine revolutionaries, on November 25, 1956, on a perilous journey, from Tuxpan, in Veracruz, Mexico, to Playa Las Coloradas, at the southern tip of Cuba. The fighting began on the beach. Of the eighty-two that formed the "Granma group", twelve made it to the Sierra Maestra mountains, where the revolution began as the Granma group gained the trust of the local population, against the Batista regime in place. On January 1, 1959, the revolutionaries entered Havana in triumph, after defeating the Batista army, with the support of all the guerrillas that had formed during three years.
The Granma vessel was built in 1943, affectionately named "Granma" as a tribute to the original owner's grandmother. The revolutionaries bought it for the hefty sum of $15,000 USD. It is now housed in a mini glass museum of its own, in a park setting, wedged between the Museum of the Revolution, and the Museum of Fine Arts, in Havana, the capital of Cuba.
The area surrounding the 1956 landing of the Granma is now called the Granma Province, and the actual landing spot is now the Granma National Park (Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma). Finally, Granma is also the name of the official daily newspaper of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.
References
International Federation of Translators (IFT) https://www.fit-ift.org/
Granma https://en.granma.cu/ 
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