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Las disparatadas mentiras del agente “Bienvenido” Jorge Luis Llanes, por Aldo Rosado-Tuero----------------------Por los frentes de Iberoamérica: Rusia planea abrir en latinoamérica “talleres” para sus buques de guerra, por Eduardo Mackenzie------------------------Cuba, China y la economía cubana, por José M. Izquierdo------------------------Los títeres voluntarios se ponen a la disposición del Nuevo Orden Mundial: Rindiendo examen-----------------------¡Gloria al bravo pueblo! Marabunta, Así se hace ¡Viva Venezuela!-------------------------Recetas de cocina: Boniato relleno----------------------------El rincón de la nostalgia: Paz Martínez- “Amor Pirata”.
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Victims of the 1960's rural uprising
A young man killed whose family paid dearly
jose_adonis_pea_calzada_001José Adonis Peña Calzada, Age 17
Anti-Castro rebel killed in combat on January 6, 1961 during the Escambray uprising. Resident of Trinidad, Las Villas (near the Circuito Sur highway).
Enrique Encinosa's book Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro (Los Angeles: Pureplay Press, 2004) offers a superb account of the rural uprising in the early 1960's, in which thousands of Cubans lost their lives and entire families were sent to concentration camps. Eventually resettled, they were never allowed to return home. Most of the rebels were small farmers opposed to the Communist government's confiscation of their land. Many were also former members of the Rebel Army against Batista who felt that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the Revolution.
To squash the uprising, the Castro regime sent waves of thousands of men to comb the countryside area in what it called "limpias" (“clearings”). The small groups of rebels would end up trapped, many deliberately burnt alive in the fields. Insurgents and peasant families in the combat areas endured other horrible atrocities. Scores of those captured were executed, often after summary trials or no trial at all. Among the victims, Cuba Archive has documented 14 minors executed for taking part in the anti-Castro uprising, and more than a dozen under age
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Las disparatadas mentiras del agente “Bienvenido” Jorge Luis Llanes, por Aldo Rosado-Tuero----------------------Por los frentes de Iberoamérica: Rusia planea abrir en latinoamérica “talleres” para sus buques de guerra, por Eduardo Mackenzie------------------------Cuba, China y la economía cubana, por José M. Izquierdo------------------------Los títeres voluntarios se ponen a la disposición del Nuevo Orden Mundial: Rindiendo examen-----------------------¡Gloria al bravo pueblo! Marabunta, Así se hace ¡Viva Venezuela!-------------------------Recetas de cocina: Boniato relleno----------------------------El rincón de la nostalgia: Paz Martínez- “Amor Pirata”.
www.nuevoaccion.com
Victims of the 1960's rural uprising
A young man killed whose family paid dearly
jose_adonis_pea_calzada_001José Adonis Peña Calzada, Age 17
Anti-Castro rebel killed in combat on January 6, 1961 during the Escambray uprising. Resident of Trinidad, Las Villas (near the Circuito Sur highway).
Enrique Encinosa's book Unvanquished: Cuba’s Resistance to Fidel Castro (Los Angeles: Pureplay Press, 2004) offers a superb account of the rural uprising in the early 1960's, in which thousands of Cubans lost their lives and entire families were sent to concentration camps. Eventually resettled, they were never allowed to return home. Most of the rebels were small farmers opposed to the Communist government's confiscation of their land. Many were also former members of the Rebel Army against Batista who felt that Castro had betrayed the ideals of the Revolution.
To squash the uprising, the Castro regime sent waves of thousands of men to comb the countryside area in what it called "limpias" (“clearings”). The small groups of rebels would end up trapped, many deliberately burnt alive in the fields. Insurgents and peasant families in the combat areas endured other horrible atrocities. Scores of those captured were executed, often after summary trials or no trial at all. Among the victims, Cuba Archive has documented 14 minors executed for taking part in the anti-Castro uprising, and more than a dozen under age
18 are documented to have died in combat. Often, all the men in the family joined the uprising. Many men on the side of the Castro militia and army also died in combat.
José Adonis, age 17, left to join the Escambray rebels in July of 1960. His brother, 15, left a month later. His father also joined. They all opposed Castro’s rule and Communism. They were all in separate groups of insurgents. Fellow rebels related the story of his death to his family. José Adonis had a Remington rifle that was malfunctioning. To recharge, he had to hit the cartridge against something. In a combat situation on January 6, 1961, the order to retreat was given. Because of his rifle’s malfunction, he was left essentially disarmed. As he tried to retreat, he was shot from the side. The government confirmed his death to the family, but his body was not returned for burial, which was customary in the case of rebels. They were buried elsewhere, in locations unknown to their loved ones.
His brother, Juan Antonio Peña Calzada, was captured February 6, 1961 and was sent to several different prisons. After serving one and a half years, he was released conditionally because he was a minor. On December 15, 1971, most former insurgents from the area (about 3,000) were rounded up and taken to Pinar del Rio, where they were put to work building houses and paid very low wages. A few months later, over 200 of them were sent to Miraflores, Camaguey, to work in a concentration camp setting. After they built the houses, their families were forcibly relocated there. They could not leave the premises without authorization and were given very little and awful food. He spent 24 years there. Both his father and mother died there. He left for exile in 1999. The Escambray uprising was finally extinguished in 1964. It was mostly composed of small farmers and peasants whose lands had been confiscated by the government.
Sources: Encinosa, 1989, p. 156. Ruiz, 1972, p. 56. Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 64. Testimony of cousin, Rafael Catoni, in person, Miami, February 22, 2004. Written testimony of brother, Juan Antonio Peña Calzada, March 6, 2005 input form to Cuba Archive and telephone conversation of April 3. 2006.
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