Word: camagiiey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first blow in Castro's bad week came from central Camagiiey province, where Major Hubert Matos, 40, has been boss of the rebel army. For months, Matos had been writing Fidel his misgivings over Communist infiltration in the Agrarian Reform Institute-and over illegal land seizures. Castro gradually shifted most of Matos' army friends out of Camagiiey, then cut off the major's ammunition and supplies. Last week, when Fidel's Red-lining brother Raul took over as Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Matos quit in protest. "No one can talk...
...Genocide!" Thirty of Matos' officer friends urged him to go with them to the hills and start a guerrilla campaign. Matos chose to wait. Tension grew; crowds milled about the city of Camagiiey. Captain Jose Manuel Hernandez, disillusioned by Castro and fearful for Matos, put a bullet through his own head. Flying into town, Castro jailed Matos as a "traitor," "ingrate," and an ally of two other prominent Cubans purged because of their anti-Communist pronouncements-ex-President Manuel Urrutia and ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Diaz Lanz. Spat Castro: "The three musketeers have fallen...
...that Castro could now come down and engage in a stand-up fight. But he did hold the Oriente countryside, and he was strong enough to expand his guerrilla operations. This week rebels were fighting in four of Cuba's six provinces, and Castro reinforcements were scheduled for Camagiiey and Las Villas provinces. Batista still held the big, fixed positions of power-the cities, the capital, the labor movement, the army-but their strength was ebbing...
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