Blog Archives November 2011

The Crime in Limones Cantero is Still Fresh

By Arelis García Today, as the U.S administration self-proclaims as true spearhead of a crusade against the world-wide terrorism, it shadows the crimes committed by counterrevolutionary bands, encouraged by the White House itself since early of the Cuban Revolution. Worthless wound up its attempts to blow up the Literacy Campaign, initiated on 1961, which achieved an outcome in less than »

Program Improves Houses in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

by Carmen Rodríguez Pentón Sancti Spiritus -Cuba central province- strives to improve housing conditions by means of a program which has already benefited over 1 200 houses concerning restoration and rehabilitation.»

Anti-Cuba Bandits: Terrorism in Past Tense

The revolutionary process undertaken by the Cubans after the guerrilla beards’ victory in 1959 did not wait long. for the powerful northern neighbor nation put into motion its varied arsenal of methods to undermine the island’s internal order. Once the United States finally realized that the Cuban Revolution was determined to continue with its social change far more from surrendering, »

Chronology (May 1961 – December 1965)

1961 May 11: Guillermo Hernández Niebla, his mother Adela Niebla Santos, and his brother René and sister Bertila, both children of peasant Francisco Hernández Rodríguez, left wounded after his house in Sancti Spíritus was assaulted by a terrorist squad.»

Chronology (December 1960 – April 1961)

1960 December 10: Evelio Duke proclaimed himself as unique head of the anti-communist Army. Since he had escaped to hide himself into the Escambray wilderness by the middle of this same year,  he had serious discrepancies with Osvaldo Ramírez. In 1961, he was able to flee abroad.»

Chronology (January 1959 – November 1960)

1959 The organization of a group of bandits in western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio, directed by Luis Lara Crespo, former military official of Fulgencio Batista’s Army and fugitive of the revolutionary justice for his several crimes committed in service, marked the sunrise of  terrorist bands in Cuba. In that same year, the Cuba’s most western province happened to »

Crimes in the Escambray are Still Fresh

By Juan A. Borrego Díaz The anti-Cuban armed bands, encouraged and funded by Washington, cost our country the death of more than 500 of its brave sons and nearly a billion national pesos.»

The Escambray Victory: As Important as Bay of Pigs

Words pronounced by Cuban President Fidel Castro before the grave of comrade Piti Fajardo on November of 1959. … and it pleases us and consoles us as well – comrades- to be able to tell you that the enemies of our Homeland, anywhere in the world they might arise, anywhere in the world they attempt to perpetrate the crime of »

Rescue of Air Crash Victims’ Remains Concluded in Cuba

by Enrique Ojito Linares The rescue of the remains of the passEngers and crew members traveling in the Aerocaribbean S.A. airliner crashed Thursday in Guasimal, Sancti Spiritus, was concluded. 68 persons were traveling in the plane, 40 of whom were Cubans and the other 28 were visitors from different countries.»