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...blocking the front door. Another pair strode across the tiled floor to block a back exit. Four others herded twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Guns in the Afternoon | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Open the vault and don't get nervous or we'll kill you," ordered the leader. Juncadella did as he was told. The robbers scooped up hundreds of bank notes and cleaned out the cash windows. Eight minutes after entering the bank, they walked out into the sun-baked Prado, crossed to the shady side where their cars were waiting, and drove away. It was the biggest bank robbery in Cuba's history. Total take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Guns in the Afternoon | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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