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, »

1959 November: The first group is captured, all its troopers came to be members of the  counterrevolutionary organization the Rosa Blanca (the White Rose).»

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.»

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.»

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 »

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.»

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 »

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.»

by Enrique Ojito No survivors have been reported so far after the tragic air crash that took place Thursday in Sancti Spiritus in which the Cuban airlines’ Aerocaribbean S.A. ATR-72-212 aircraft was involved. The plane was traveling from Santiago de Cuba to Havana.»

by Delia Proenza Barzaga Teachers and education officials from Sancti Spiritus get ready for October 22 provincial event Pedagogy 2011, which will be based at the University of Educational Sciences (UCP) Captain Silverio Blanco Núñez.»