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the time of Stalin, his enemies died after confessing; yours, when
they awake, find themselves suicided, without confession, and this
awakens all kinds of suspicions:
- Allende's daughter, who had taken refuge in Havana, found
no refuge from her disillusionment, and on the verge of choosing
liberty - committed "suicide."
- Nilsa Esp(n, a high-placed leader of M-26 and sister of
Vilma ("Deborah"): the official legend says that she committed
suicide with a sudden blast from a machine gun . . .
. . . in the office of your brother Raul!
A "suicide" in which she not only showed her talents as a
contortionist, able to shoot herself with such a weapon, but also her
ability as Wonder Woman, able to get past the multitude of guards
who protect the Minister of the Armed Forces without any of them
noticing that she was armed with a machine gun.
-Captain Feliz Pena committed "suicide" when he decided to
defend the accused pilots.
-Commander Eduardo Sunol committed suicide without further of–
ficial details, as did Commander Alberto Mora, Police Captain Ar–
turo Martinez Escobar, and Onelio Pino, Commander of your
legendary yacht, "Gramma."
-Captain Rivera, connected to Raul Castro's political family
through two other members, shot himself on a military base when he
tried to break his family ties.
-Oswaldo Dorticos, Minister ofJustice , did not die oflaughter as he
contemplated his title but rather, according to your reports, "he
committed suicide" in the "third week" of the month ofJune 1983, "in
despair because of the death of his wife and because of back trouble."
A praiseworthy despair, which he knew how to face by living with a
woman comrade since 1967, when he and his wife separated. On
May 1st, only weeks before his death and in spite of the pain he was
suffering, he walked the five kilometer "March of the Fighting Peo–
ple." I am looking now at a photograph from
Bohemia
dated May 6th
in which he is undaunted, upright, martial, walking next to Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez and toward his unsuspected "suicide."
-Haydee Santamar{a, Director of the Casa de las Americas and
member of the Central Committee, committed "suicide" in 1980 . . .
on the 26th of July! And with that you succeeded in placing a
mourning wreath on the day that symbolizes rebellion for you,
and in adding even more villainy to the date.
During the time of Batista, Haydee Santamaria, a clairvoyant
