Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore to sidetrack the pursuers. They were promptly arrested and clapped into Cabana fortress. The Coral disappeared in the direction of Cuba's western tip, Pinar del Rio. Three days later the puffing gunboat Baire found the yacht loafing along the coast. It was captured without a shot. A crew of three sailors were on board who knew nothing, had seen nothing. They were brought back as prisoners in high good humor...
Wherever the two leaders were, revolution did not wait for them. From Pinar del Rio to Oriente violence broke out all over the island. There was skirmishing outside Santiago de Cuba (centre of U. S. action in the Spanish-American War, see map), at Artemisa, Sancti Spiritus, Sierra Morena. The Machado Government issued a slightly contradictory bulletin to say that the situation was well in hand but that fighting had broken out at 49 points...
...Artemisa in Pinar del Rio eight young student insurrectos were ambushed by Government troops...
...Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because -Que Diablo!-a good revolution doesn't come every day. Federal troops cornered the white-haired old warrior near Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio. He escaped to the hills on horseback with 22 followers. Again there was a traitor. The Federals followed to Peraza's secret camp on Toro Hill. There was a rush, a rattle of musketry. Ten were shot where they lay, ten were captured, two escaped...
Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory...