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...Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property-"someone that we know"-had accepted a bribe of $400,000 for unfreezing a frozen bank account of more than $900,000. "We are studying the case in order to execute him," said the Prime Minister. Next day one René Ray Rivero, an official of the Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Property who was under suspicion, shot and killed himself at Havana's police headquarters. Waiting anxiously to hear their fate were hundreds of Ousted Dictator Fulgencio Batista's civilian government employees, now in jail on charges of stealing...
...seemed respectable, well meaning, weak on government experience. Prime Minister José Miró Cardona, 56, is dean of the Havana Bar Association. Commerce Minister Raúl Cepero Bonilla, 37. set his goal as "an efficient organization, but above all an honest one." Public Works Minister Manuel Ray Rivero. 34, an engineer, was the dapper boss of the Havana rebel underground. He has the most urgent job of all: repairing the shattered roads and bridges to move the $700 million sugar harvest, which starts this month...
...Scramble. In the dictator's final scramble for safety, ferries, yachts, airliners and private planes were jammed. One Cubana Airlines pilot, at gunpoint, flew 92 refugees to New York just before armed civilians seized the Havana airport. To the Dominican Republic, besides Batista, went Andrés Rivero Aguero, Batista's puppet President-elect, who was supposed to take office Feb. 24. (Another Ciudad Trujillo resident: Argentina's exiled Dictator Juan Perón.) The Jacksonville club included national Police Chief Pilar Garcia, worst of the terrorists, and Army Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla, whose unseemly wealth...
...time former President (1933-34, 1944-48), had no chance at all. The only chance for Carlos Marquez Sterling, 59, lawyer and economist, lay in the unlikely possibility that Batista might want a graceful exit from an uncomfortable situation. The favorite was Batista's man, Andres Rivero Aguero, 53, a longtime henchman hand-picked to succeed the dictator. At Batista's side since 1933, Rivero Aguero was one of his lieutenants in the 1952 coup, was rewarded with the Ministry of Education and last year with the title of Prime Minister...
Barring a military coup or an uprising far stronger than Castro has been able to mount thus far, Rivero Aguero was a shoo-in. Whether he would ever really run the country was another question...