Chronology

Wrote a letter to Carmen Castro Porta, Secretary General of the Martí Women’s Civic Front, reaffirming his gratitude for the necessary and decisive collaboration of the organization with the 26th of July Movement.

Wrote a short letter to Melba Hernández requesting that she forward his letter to Carmen Castro Porta. He also attached copies of letters he had sent to Prío and one that had been sent to him by Cuban Civic Movement from New York.

In response to letters from emigrants in New York, he wrote a lengthy letter to Angel Pérez Vidal of the Cuban Civic Movement. In the letter, he recalls the fighting spirit of the emigrants’ clubs during the struggles of 1868 and 1895. He also denounces the unscrupulous politicians who, with their dishonest and betraying policies, are working in Cuba to replace one dictatorship with another by men without scruples or moral.

Writes to Haydée Santamaría from the Mexican capital, confirming the information he received from her on 6 September. He also mentions the treacherous actions of Raúl Martínez Ararás and another small group of deserters.

On that day, he wrote to Melba Hernández and the comrades of the National Directorate, informing them about the work he is doing and the new contacts he had made. He sends a copy of his replying letter to the Cuban Civic Movement in New York.

Travelled by bus from Mexico City to Merida, Yucatan to meet Justo Carrillo Hernandez, the leader of the Movimiento Libertario (Libertarian Movement) who had come from Havana.

He holds an interview with the leader of the Movimiento Libertario (Libertarian Movement) Justo Carrillo at the Mayan archaeological site of Chichen Itza.

He sends a letter from Mexico City to Cuban emigrant Moisés Crespo, where he heavily criticizes some faults in the organization of the recently founded the Abel Santamaría Club in New York.

He writes a letter to the executive committee of the 26th of July Patriotic Club, in New York, in which he reproaches them for not having replied to his letter sent three weeks earlier and instructs new actions for the distribution of the Movement’s documents.

He meets radio commentator and president of the Movimiento de la Nación José Pardo Llada, and Dr. Raúl de Juan, leader of that organization, at Sorrento restaurant, in the Mexican capital. He is accompanied by Jesús Montané and Melba Hernández.

The Bohemia magazine publishes his article entitled “¡Frente a todos!”(In front of everyone!), written on 25 December 1955, which has a huge impact on public opinion.

He writes a letter from Mexico City to Luis García Leal and other colleagues of the 26th of July Patriotic Club of Bridgeport, expressing his negative impressions on the work of Cuban emigrants in the United States and acknowledging the work of that Club in particular.