Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supreme leader." Inevitable spawn of Machado's Terror, they knew that if they tried to live quietly in their homes, they might soon be jailed or dead. To stamp them out President Machado last week sent to Santa Clara his favorite strong-arm man, notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz...
...news that Ortiz was coming, the rebels flickered among the hills like fireflies. They attacked a Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted...
Meanwhile Ortiz went to work. He set two planes to scouting the coast every night, two gunboats to keep more rebels from landing. He started with 100 men, a crew of officers he had picked himself. Machado sent him 300 more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province...
...Ortiz is married to a white woman whom he took from a convent. Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field...
Last year former President Pascual Ortiz Rubio ordered General Arturo Campillo Seyde to go up to Lower California and see what was going on. The General spent months pounding over dusty mountain trails from Tijuana to Cape San Lucas, visiting mining camps, Japanese fishing villages, straggling ranches. Last week he published his report...