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Camilo Cienfuegos
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| February 6,
1932 |
Camilo
Cienfuegos was born in Havana. |
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| 1953 |
Camilo
traveled to the United
States, sick of the tyranny in Cuba and in search of a better situation.
He decided to return, indignant at the atmosphere and the
exploitation of the workers in the USA. |
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| 1954 |
Camilo
joined the student
struggles against the dictatorship. |
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| 1955 |
Camilo
received a bullet wound
during a demonstration and was entered on the files of the repressive
bodies. Camilo was therefore
forced to go abroad again. In New York, he learned about the ideas and
aims of Fidel Castro and then decided to go to Mexico. There, he joined
the expedition that was organized to restart the armed struggle in Cuba. |
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December 2, 1956 |
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Camilo
was one of the 82 fighters who landed from the Granma
yacht on Cuban coasts to begin the armed struggle in the Sierra Maestra. |
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| April
1958 |
Camilo
was
promoted to major and a wide area of the eastern territory remained under
his control. |
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| August
1958 |
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In
august the
rebel
forces finally went on the offensive. Camilo was appointed head
of the Antonio Maceo Invasion Column, which, alongside the column led by
Che Guevara, fulfilled the risky mission of moving to the center of the
island. On October 3, after multiple hardships and extraordinary displays
of heroism, he arrived at the province of Las Villas, where several
combats took place, notably the taking of the town of Yaguajay. |
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October 21, 1959
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Following an attempt to initiate a counter-revolutionary
uprising, Huber Matos, military commander of Camagüey
Province, is arrested by army chief of staff Camilo Cienfuegos. |
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| October
28, 1959 |
Camilo Cienfuegos was killed in a plane crash. He was returning to Havana
after neutralizing the counter-revolutionary conspiracy in the province of
Camaguey.
More
info:
Fidel
Castro about the disappearance of Camilo Cienfuegos
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Republic of Cuba
