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Somehow in the following years he found time for marriage and five children, who are all in Miami now with their mother. "During the fight against Batista we split the family up, some in one house, some in another. We weren't afraid. Also I have one brother, and I lost one brother, and then I have a sister, who is in Cuba...
...about this time that two important things happened to Ray: he was elected president of the Civil Engineers Association of Havana, and he became involved in anti-Batista activities. "There was no single reason. I had never been active before. I had just had enough of what was going on." "What was going on" included at that time a particularly violent purge of Batista's political enemies, including the mayor of Havana. Ray resigned in protest from the Development Commission, but he continued to teach at the University...
Immediately after the Revolution, in December of 1958, Senor Ray was named Minister of Public Works--"by consensus," he explains. He remained in that post until November 26, 1959, when he resigned: "It was two years the day after Batista's police went to my home." He remained in Havana, still at the University, under surveillance by the Government. "But they couldn't do anything; they had too many problems of their...
...Wall! As the studio audience chanted "to the wall," the announcer asked viewers to telephone immediately if they recognized any criminals among the men. One woman rushed forward to identify Prisoner RamÓn Calviño as a Batista torturer (he was, with 15 murders on his record, acknowledged the exiles), asked to be on the firing squad that executes him. A few brave men defied their inquisitors. Carlos Varona, 21, the son of Exile Leader Antonio Varona, and a paratrooper in the rebel army, coolly asked his jeering captors: "If you have so many people on your side...
...crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...