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...Salvadoran Communist Party. A year later, he became secretary of organization for the party's central committee and displayed a talent for recruiting disaffected workers. In 1949 Carpio was arrested again, was deported to Nicaragua and ended up in Mexico. There he made an important friend, Bias Roca Calderio, then secretary-general of the Cuban Socialist Party, now a high-ranking member of the central committee of the Cuban Communist Party. In 1950 Bias Roca invited Carpio to Cuba to see how the Communist Party operated...
BLAS ROCA (real name, Francisco Calderio), 53, Secretary General of the Communist Party and usually regarded as the No. 1 Communist in Cuba. The son of a Manzanillo shoe-factory worker. Roca became secretary general of the Cuban Communist Party in 1934, a post that he has held ever since. In 1938, at a secret meeting with Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Roca agreed to a Batista-Communist alliance (assuring legality for the party in return for organizing a pro-Batista labor movement) that lasted until 1954 when Batista bowed to U.S. pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold...
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