By Pastor Guzmán Bandit chief Julio Emilio Carretero forced the entire Romero Rojas family to write with their own hands “These people were crashed by the cart wheels” after being massacred in their own household.»
Escambray
Crashed Plane Flight Recorder Device and Voice Box Found
by Mary Luz Borrego The flight recorder device and the voice box have been already found in the disaster area, both of which constitute key elements to unveil the causes of the air crash reported this Thursday in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus. Meanwhile, authorities continue the investigations as well as the rescue of the bodies.»
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 of Top Bands Captured in Las Villas
1959 November: The first group is captured, all its troopers came to be members of the counterrevolutionary organization the Rosa Blanca (the White Rose).»
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.»
Escambray ENGLISH EDITION