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...Batista unwittingly gave Castro his biggest boost: a brutal counter-terrorism campaign that drove thousands of Cubans from neutrality to opposition. Irresponsible police thugs in Havana blunderingly murdered Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, a respected, nonviolent leader of the anti-Batista Orthodox Party ("About like killing Lyndon Johnson," say the rebels). A 15-year-old boy, suspected of bomb tossing, was castrated in Santiago and shipped home dead to his mother. When Rebel Frank Pais, a young schoolteacher, was shot by cops in Santiago, 80,000 Cubans marched to his funeral and closed down the town for seven days with a general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The First Year of Rebellion | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...wreaths to the graves of the five soldiers who died defending him. He spoke lightly of the danger he had faced. But some of his henchmen quickly took up the politics of murder. Two lowly oppositionists were found shot to death. another hanged. Far more ominously, former Senator Pelayo Cuervo Navarro, 57, a politico who fought Batista with outspoken criticism, was found in a Havana suburb, his body riddled with bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Not Afraid to Die | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Bogota, Colombia, art lovers think highly of José Rodriguez' painting-especially his nubile nudes. They also think that Rodriguez, a shy and reticent man of 45, is not widely enough known. Last month, in an effort to get him a bigger audience, Director Teresa Cuervo of Bogotá's National Museum opened a four-week show of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty & the Beatas | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, for help. Under Cuervo's guidance he plunged across the street, burst into the Council shouting: "Unconstitutionality!" Like a match in a powder keg, this touched off a fiery debate. Presently Mayor Menocal gave up, sat down. Now thoroughly humiliated-as the Communist-keyed majority of the Council intended he should be-Mayor Menocal decided they all might just as well hold the induction ceremonies in the Municipal Building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Mayor Rebuffed | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Gynecology 6 Obstetrics: Montevideo, Dr. Juan Pouorfila; Bogota, Dr. Juan N. Corpas; Mexico City, Dr. Ever-ardoLanda; Havana, Drs. Gustavo Cuervo Rubio, Gualberto Ponce y Diaz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pan-American Doctors | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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