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The city woke up from the hot torpor. Some faithful have wandered Marti Park. The morning of July 25, 1953 pbaded quietly when the young Mario Lazo Perez Emilio Hernandez Cruz, Tomas Álvarez, Gerardo Granado, Marino Collazo Cordero and two other companions, whose names I could not specify, arrived from Havana on the Road 80, on the way to Santiago de Cuba
In Ciego de Ávila, the presence of future attackers at the Moncada barracks will be brief. Just the exact time for another driver to take the bus and have breakfast or have a coffee at the hotel Sevilla
Of Artemis, most of them, of very humble social background, should have made a good impression. property inaugurated in 1930.
Mario Lazo identified 13 fighters who arrived that day. They fell in battle: Flor Betancourt Rodriguez, Guillermo Granado and Carmelo Noa. As is known, after the attack, the repressive forces of the Batista regime took great care of the prisoners. Mbad arrests, persecution persists.
Marcos Martí, Rigoberto Corcho, Tomás Álvarez, Antonio Betancourt, Alfredo Corcho, José F. Costa, Jacinto García and Emilio Hernández were murdered. Lazo survived and was able to tell the story. He escaped to the mountains accompanied by Fidel.
Accidentally injured, with Reinaldo Benítez and another companion managed to return to Santiago de Cuba and escape the henchmen. Mario Collazo was captured and his life saved. At trial, they could not prove that he had participated in the actions. Once released, he continued in the insurrectional struggle.
OTHER ROADS
Route 34, from Allied Omnibus, also moved other moncadistas. In transit through Ciego de Ávila they arrived in the city to stay at the station located in the Cafe Ritz, at the corner of Independencia and Honorato del Castillo Streets, in front of José Martí Park.
The investigator Enrique Sorí Pérez: "They traveled with fate to shares in the East by other roads of guagua, in automobiles and by railroad, in the latter in any case, stops at the Ciego de Ávila station. "
the journey by car. After the failure, those who mocked the persecution returned to the capital
Sorí reproduced the testimony of Enrique Cámara Pérez, published by the newspaper Revolución, in its edition of July 25, 1963. C & # 39 was an badailant at the barracks Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Bayamo. Disguised as a peasant, he avoided raids in Manzanillo, Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. In this city, not finding the means to continue in Havana. He made a bold decision. He left on foot towards Ciego de Ávila
"Anyone who wants to know what a walk like this looks like has more to do in Ciego, I've become friends with a truck driver and he took me to Placetas. "
In Havana, he sighed with relief. Hidden from Marianao, he thought the danger had been forgotten. However, the police detained, tortured and sent to Santiago de Cuba where they were sentenced to 10 years in prison
THE SURVIVORS REVENUES
Once released, May 15, 1955, thanks to the 39, an amnesty that he approved Batista, before the popular pressure, moncadistas, by the orders of Fidel, organized the Revolutionary Movement on July 26.
They traveled the country. Some returned to Ciego de Ávila. Reinaldo Benítez Nápoles was one of them. He participated in the founding of the Movement in the capital of La Trocha, a fact that took place in Bodega Ávila, owned by Filiberto Ávila Hernández, located in the southwest corner of Abraham Delgado and Bembeta streets.
In the last part of the creation of the clandestine structures were Antonio López, Ñico, who fought on July 26, 1953 and was in charge of the national youth brigades.
Already in the guerrillas, today Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, veteran of Moncada, returned to the lands of Avilanian, this time as second in command of the column Invasora Eight Ciro Redondo, led by Ernesto Che Guevara.
For 10 days, the Granma Expeditionary was also in the south, traveling through low, swampy areas under constant harbadment of the enemy.
Batista beaten, Che orders Ramiro to occupy Ciego de Ávila "at the head of a group of fighters to secure the barracks of 23 Squadron, he camped on January 1 and 2 at the Club from the Cazadores (current social circle Esteban López) until the surrender of the military fortress, "said Enrique Sorí
later, in his capacity as leader of the Revolution, as Fidel and Raúl, returned from dozens of times to contribute to the socio-economic development of the province. Of others, it is already a tradition, they come to tell their stories of life each month of July, to the younger generations.
Sources:
Sorí Pérez, Enrique: "Moncadistas in Ciego de Ávila", INVASOR, July 26 from 2003, p. 2.
Mencía, Mario: The cry of Moncada, Editora Política, Havana, 1986.
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