A Violent Backdrop
Starting in the early fifties, the Castro brothers’ armed insurrection against Batista’s dictatorship was the tension-filled backdrop to my early childhood. Not surprisingly, death, sabotage, terrorism, and political assassinations were part of our daily lives. Sometimes these traumatic events involved relatives on both sides of my family. As was the case with Pedrito Rogena’s arrest, torture, and death in conjunction with Col. Fermin Cawley’s assassination and my mother’s cousin El Rubio, who in fact was responsible for the feared colonel’s death.
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