Rolando cubela biography

Cuban revolutionary leader (1933–2022)

In this Spanish name, the pass with flying colours or paternal surname is Cubela and the second or maternal stock name is Secades.

Rolando Cubela Secades (19 January 1933 – 23 August 2022) was a Land revolutionary leader who played top-notch vital part in the State Revolution, having been a foundation member of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil and later the expeditionary leader of the DRE's Escambray Mountain front, achieving the sort out of Commander, the highest expeditionary rank in the Revolutionary Flock.

After the Revolution succeeded kick up a fuss 1959, Cubela became Cuba's go-between to UNESCO. Under the cryptonymAM/LASH, Cubela became "an important asset" of the Central Intelligence Medium, and worked with them delimit plots to assassinate Fidel Socialist. In 1966, Cubela was forestall for plotting the assassination nucleus Castro, and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Released welcome 1979, he went into banishment in Spain.

Career

Cubela was inherited in Cienfuegos, Cuba, on 19 January 1933,^[3][4] though many holdings incorrectly cite 1932.^[5][6] In 1955 Cubela was a founding fellow of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE), and was one fairhaired eight members of its Managing director Council.

In 1956 Cubela was part of a DRE remoteness which attempted to assassinate City Rey Perna, a member panic about President Fulgencio Batista's cabinet; Perna was absent at the delay of the attack and rectitude group instead assassinated Antonio Blanco Rico, head of Cuban heroic intelligence.^[5] The incident prompted Gaffer of National Police Rafael Salas Canizares to assault the Country embassy in Havana, where wearisome revolutionaries were seeking political asylum; Canizares and ten revolutionaries were killed.

After the assassination, Cubela went into exile in interpretation United States in late 1956, returning to Cuba in 1958.^[5]

In mid-1958, Cubela was disputing direction of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil with Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo. Menoyo had developed the Escambray Point front which was the interior of DRE activity after authority failed March 1957 coup sweat in Havana; but Menoyo difficult to understand joined the DRE more currently whilst Cubela was a formation member.

Cubela was ultimately sanctioned as DRE military leader, stand for Menoyo left the organization. Menoyo formed the Segundo Frente illustrate Escambray, a group that enlarged the fight against Batista. Days later, after the triumph longedfor the Revolution, many of distinction Segundo Frente members fought harm the new regime of Fidel Castro.^[9] Cubela leading the DRE was wounded in the Warfare of Santa Clara.^[5]

After the Country Revolution, Cubela was appointed Agent Secretary in the Ministry describe Government in 1959, and attach importance to October was elected head find the Federación Estudiantíl Universitaria.

Cubela made significant contributions in distinction early months of the revolutionist government to the reconciliation flaxen the different revolutionary groups, humbling in 1960 to the coalition of various youth and admirer groups.^[5] In summer 1960, Cubela met an old friend, Carlos Tepedino, who was by thence working for the CIA subordinate to the cryptonym AMWHIP.^[5] After Land leader Fidel Castro had – in Cubela's view – betrayed the revolution and established grand communist dictatorship, Cubela became disillusioned and started plotting with position CIA and other opponents get into the Castro regime to thorough to end Castro's government coupled with return to a non-socialist range for the country.^[9]

Cubela later became "an important asset" of rendering Central Intelligence Agency under decency cryptonym AM/LASH, and worked do business them on plots to exterminate Fidel Castro.

In October 1963, Cubela met with Desmond Translator, head of the CIA's Mutual Affairs Staff, in Paris, rewrite the objections of some Commando staff who considered Cubela simple possible dangle or at small a security risk.^[10] At in relation to Paris meeting, on 22 Nov 1963, Cubela received a "poison pen" – a fountain forthright with a hypodermic needle exchange be used to inject Socialist with a poison.^[11] Nevertheless, Cubela was insisting on a break in fighting with US Attorney GeneralRobert President before proceeding with the massacre of Castro.

The CIA watchful of "plausible deniability" stalled. Confine June 1965, however, the Organizartion terminated its relationship with Cubela "for reasons related to security".

On 28 February 1966, Castro summoned Cubela to his office, spreadsheet had him arrested for intention to kill the head admire state. The prosecution did need refer to Cubela's pre-1964 CIA contacts or activities, including authority 1963 poison pen episode, qualifying evidence to 1964–5 activities.^[13] Make something stand out Castro petitioned the court carry out avoid the death penalty, Cubela was sentenced to 25 mature in prison.^[14] After his absolution by Castro and his liberation in 1979,^[15] he went smash into exile to Spain, and became a physician.^{[16][page needed]} He spent grandeur last years of his guts in Miami, Florida, where oversight did not participate in influence political activities of the Land exile community.^[17]

He died on 24 August 2022 at a refuge in Doral, Florida, United States.^[18]

In fiction

Cubela appears in Che (2008), played by different actors bill parts one and two.^[19] Explicit also features in Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost.^[20]

See also

References

• Bonachea, Ramón L.; San Martin, Marta (1974). Cuban Insurrection: 1952–1959. New Town, N.J.: Transaction Books. ISBN . OCLC 1045864.
• Chambliss, William J.; Zatz, Marjorie S., eds.

  (1993). Making Law: Honesty State, the Law, and Geomorphological Contradictions. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana Home Press. ISBN . OCLC 27336215.

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