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Personalities from the history of Los Arabos

Insigne Patriot of Los Arabos Clotilde García Morejón (1876-16.8. 1896). Calixto García Martínez, assailant at the Bayamo barracks on 7/26/1953, expeditionary of the Granma Yacht, Combatant of the Sierra Maestra, member of the Freedom Caravan that passed through Los Arabos on 7/1-1959. Moisés Sio Wong, a native of San Pedro de Mayabón, one of the 3 Generals of Chinese origin, in the last stage of our libertarian struggles. Zenén Ramírez Vieito. Combatant from the Sierra Maestra, Member of Column No. 1 under the command of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, member of the Freedom Caravan that passed through Los Arabos on 7/1-1959. José María Duarte Oquendo (6.1.1912- 11.4.1958), Gregorio Carine Rivero (24.11.1911 -24.10. 1958), Jesús Mondéjar Chávez (20.5.1922-18.5.1962) murdered in the 1950s for collaborating with the M- 26_7. Pedrito Morejón Quintana stabbed by a counterrevolutionary gang (28.1.1941-21.2.1961) and Sofiel Riverón López, martyr of Girón (29.10.1940-18.4.1961). Anacario Cipriano Mondejar Soto (Ninón Mondejar) (Finca Semillero, Los Arabos 8.10.1914-Havana 27.1.2006), musician of international stature, founder of the América orchestra.

The July 26 movement in Los Arabos

The July 26 movement in Los Arabos was created in October 1955 in the Zorrilla power plant, headed by José Emiliano Duarte Comas and made up of: Juan Morejón Pomares and other colleagues. In mid-1958, a small group led by Edilio Díaz Crespo, named Mario Muñoz, rose to the river La Palma and had 43 men. The uprising had the support of workers and family members of the Zorrilla plant, which made it possible for this guerrilla group to resist, which played an important role in the fight. The workers at the Vila family's footwear factory made boots for them. They were also supported by some pharmacists with medications. They acted according to the guidelines of the provincial leadership of the July 26 movement. As they sabotaged the November elections, they cut off the electricity and telegraph fluids, they spread argallatas on the roads and streets. The most notable actions were: the sabotage of the ¨Minguino¨ passenger train (17.12.1958) to destabilize the only means of transportation frequented by the rural guard, the assault on the Zorrilla rural guard post, and the town of San José de Los Ramos. As a form of retaliation for the revolutionary advance in the area, the henchmen hanged Gregorio Carine Rivero (24.10.1958) on the Vesubio estate in the current Villa Clara territory, leaving the body of the Minguino train behind the body of José Garcerán Vera, who had been assassinated in Ceiba Mocha, near Matanzas (12/17/1958), and other revolutionaries vilely massacred elsewhere. These events contributed to the unity of the July 26 movement and the guerrillas. Between 1959-1961 Batista fled abroad. The Revolution had triumphed.

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