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Cuba's biggest manhunt in recent years got under way one night last week when an informer tipped off police that Aureliano Sánchez Arango, the elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hairbreadth Escape | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...minutes, to the sound of shrieking tires and intermittent gunfire, police played hare & hounds with a 1954 green Oldsmobile. In it the cops claimed to have got a momentary view of Sánchez Arango, dapper in a white suit and sporting a brand-new mustache. Just as a patrol car closed in behind the Olds, an older Buick got in the way, neatly blocked the police out of play, and the Olds disappeared in a burst of speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Hairbreadth Escape | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...most hunted man in Cuba today is Aureliano Sánchez Arango, 46, onetime Minister of State and Education in the ousted government of President Carlos Prío and now underground leader of a revolutionary movement to overthrow Strongman Fulgencio Batista. So badly does Batista want to catch Sáchez Arango that Cuban police have kidnaped and beaten or tortured at least two Cubans known to be his friends to force them to divulge his hiding place. But Sánchez Arango, who learned all the conspiratorial tricks fighting the Machado dictatorship 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Interview in the Night | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Fancy Dress Party is set in "a certain country on the other side of the ocean," but in its brutal swagger and decadent morals it clearly recalls Mussolini's Italy. General Tereso Arango, its aging and bilious dictator, has always been fearless in battle and seldom troubled by scruples in handling political enemies. He has only one touch of frailty: let a lovely woman flutter her lashes and he caves in like a moonstruck schoolboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Stendhal's Shadow | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...were two dead Indians and a 15-year-old boy who was almost dead. The nine-year-old and 15-year-old were taken to the hospital of the Colombian Petroleum Co. While they were being nursed back to strength, Ethnologists Jean Caudmont and Francisco Vélez Arango of Bogotá hurried to Petrolea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jungle Boys | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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