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Castro accused Almeijeiras of having "close relations with antisocial elements, vagabonds, bums and corrupt people," and more specifically, with Rolando Cubela, another Havana man about town sent up for 25 years this month for plotting Castro's assassination (TIME, March 18). Castro absolved Almeijeiras of any guilt in the plot, but claimed that he demonstrated "the same instability of character and lack of seriousness as Cubela...
...trial last week in Havana's grim La Cabaña fortress was Rolando Cubela Secades, 33, Fidel Castro's former chief student organizer and gun-slinging bullyboy for the University of Havana. His crime: plotting to assassinate Castro, by means of a high-range rifle with a telescopic sight imported from Spain...
...wall! To be executed! That is what I want. It is deserved!" cried Cubela. At that point, the script suddenly changed. Dramatically, the prosecutor read a letter from Fidel himself, asking for mercy-and the judges let Cubela off with only 25 years. The reason? From exiles trickling through to Miami came word that students at Cubela's old stomping ground, the University of Havana, had staged an angry demonstration, with a black-draped coffin, signs reading, "If Cubela dies, so do you, Fidel!" and an ancient horse-in jeering reference to Castro's nickname, el Caballo...
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