Word: castano
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Three hours before it was time for the Mendieta speech over COCO 16 men with submachine guns and pistols shot the radio tubes and equipment of station CMQ to blazes for a $40,000 loss. At about the same time Nicolas Castano Padilla, 66-year-old Havana banker, importer, sugar mill owner and lumberman, was kidnapped and held for $300,000 ransom. At once 4,500 Cuban police and soldiers and 300 secret service agents were let loose upon Havana to catch the kidnappers, and amid seething turmoil the opposition demanded for perhaps the dozenth time that President Mendieta resign...
...week's end the ostensibly irrelevant but to Cuban politicians basically fascinating ransom of $300,000 for Sugar Tycoon Castano was understood to have been paid. In Cuba such major kidnappings are commonly supposed to be the work of patriots who can think of no other way to raise enough money for a revolution. Sexagenarian Castano was finally discovered by soldiers in the suburbs, said no ransom had been paid...