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¶Execution of 493 "war criminals," mostly Batista cops and soldiers. Last week a firing squad executed a marijuana peddler as a "social benefit." Castro says illegal gambling, misappropriation of government funds and counter-revolutionary activities (effective political opposition) could bring the same penalty. Total effect is to make opposition...
A major Communist achievement: the execution last month of Captain José Castaño Quevedo, assistant head of Batista's Bureau for Communist Repression who had compiled a big card file of Cuban Communists and their activities. The file has disappeared.
Three of the gunmen claimed to have escaped from Havana's La Cabana Fortress while under threat of execution.
...placed him in a plain wooden coffin, and loaded him aboard a hearse for delivery to waiting relatives. By 1:55 a.m., all three prisoners were dead, and Marks's work was ended for the night. "Execution is not a pleasant task," says Castro's chief executioner, "but a necessary...
Later in the week, firing squads through the island shot 13 more men, raising the execution toll to 475. "War crimes" courts worked around the clock to clean up "hundreds of pending cases."