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...Revolutionary Movement of the People and are organized in every province and major municipality. Using the techniques they learned with Castro, they fight him by breaking political prisoners out of jail, by derailing trains, shooting up militia patrols and triggering bombs at strategic points. M.R.P. men blacked out Camagüey for three days, went on to set off 13 blasts that knocked out main Havana power circuits for 20 hours...
...provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power transformer...
...newspapers, radio and TV commentators beat the drums, the country went on a virtual war footing. The government recalled troops to barracks, ordered militiamen to assembly points, and deployed thousands of men along the fortified beaches on the south coast between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Camagüey. Using the "threat to Cuba" as a whiplash to complete the country's Communization, Castro's government warned workers to get into the militia or be classified as "traitors or cowards...
...Cuban revolution turned on one of its own fighting heroes last week. Major Huber Matos, former commander of Camagüey Province, stood accused before a rebel tribunal of what Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro called "the dirty business of anti-Communism." But Matos, who was jailed after he quit the army charging Red infiltration, managed to turn the force of the trial against Fidel Castro's leftist dictatorship...
Death Penalty. As in any army-run country, there is fear. The big ranches of central, cattle-raising Camagüey province have been seized by the army, pending expropriation by the Agrarian Reform Institute. At a seized ranch, a guajiro showed up one morning last week and told the landowner that he was joining the soldiers as "administrator" of the land. "I'll be moving my family into the main house," he added...