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Early one afternoon Speaker Clemente Vazquez Bello of the Cuban Senate, who looked like a retired matador and was a good friend of President Gerardo Machado, stepped jauntily from his house next to the Havana Country Club and into his car to drive to the Senate. Down the block roared an open touring car containing seven hot-eyed young men with a riot gun. They passed with a rattle of shots. A dozen bullets struck Dr. Vazquez Bello, more than 60 punctured the car, the chauffeur was wounded in the head. Bleeding profusely, he was still able to drive...
...assassins broke into the home of Dr. Miguel Angel Aguiar, who was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful anti-Machado revolution (TIME, Aug. 31. 1931) and shot him four times. The next day he died. The Government then proceeded with the burial of Speaker of the Senate Dr. Vazquez Bello. But before the funeral, detectives thoughtfully inspected Colon Cemetery where the interment was to have taken place. They found not one but 23 separate bombs planted near the spot marked for Dr. Vazquez Bello's grave, with enough dynamite to blow up the entire Vazquez Bello family, most...
...officers at the Alverca Airdrome joined the revolt and took off with a load of bombs. No fools were Commander America Sanchez and Lieut. Manoel Vazquez. Commander Sanchez joined the revolution, swooped back & forth over the roofs of Lisbon firing his machine gun. He suddenly decided that there was little future in the revolt, turned his plane's nose east and came down safely in Spain. Lieut. Vazquez went up with a crate of nearly 200 hand grenades and spent a busy hour tossing them over the side, trying to hit the Presidential Palace. When his crate was empty...