Word: pinar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dogs panicked the prisoners, and the militia fired into the crowd, wounding two. After the initial wave of 30 executions in the invasion's first 48 hours, the regime stopped issuing bulletins-but did not stop killing. The reports are that it still goes on, and travelers from Pinar del Rio province say that for a time after the invasion, executions were quietly carried out there almost every night...
...Miami and Manhattan, spokesmen for Miró Cardona's council announced fighting at Baracoa, Santa Clara and Pinar del Río. Rumors raced across the island that Brother Raül Castro had been captured in Oriente province. Reports of defections among navy and militia units were reinforced by a fragmentary radio call from a naval base east of Havana that there were only eight men left-all the rest had "walked away...
...with 20 bombs earlier in the week, but none worse. In place of the usual black-powder noisemakers planted in the suburbs, these bombs were exploded downtown and were packed with dynamite. The provinces were not far behind. Saboteurs on horseback burned out an Agrarian Reform Institute garage in Pinar del Rio, derailed the Havana-Santiago express train at Santa Clara, fired a Havana-Santiago...
...provinces, fires destroyed 2,500 tons of sugar cane and a tobacco-curing house in Pinar del Rio. In mid-island Camagüey province, two trains were derailed by sabotage; Camagüey city itself was darkened for four hours by the bombing of a key power transformer...
...newspapers, radio and TV commentators beat the drums, the country went on a virtual war footing. The government recalled troops to barracks, ordered militiamen to assembly points, and deployed thousands of men along the fortified beaches on the south coast between the provinces of Pinar del Rio and Camagüey. Using the "threat to Cuba" as a whiplash to complete the country's Communization, Castro's government warned workers to get into the militia or be classified as "traitors or cowards...