He is taken, along with the another three comrades who remain in prison, to the inspection offices of the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior, where they are subjected to further interrogations.
Chronology
The Cuban media disseminate a letter signed by a group of students including René Anillo, Marcelo Fernández and Germán Amado Blanco, where they ask Mexican President Adolfo Ruíz Cortines to adopt the necessary measures for the immediate release of Fidel Castro and his comrades who were still detained at the Miguel Schultz prison.
A large group of friends and comrades go to the Miguel Schultz Immigrant Detention Center, in order to visit Fidel and his two comrades who are still in prison. María Antonia González is part of that group and daily brings them food. Fidel talks to Jesus Chuchú Reyes, in private, about the details of his detention by the Mexican Secret Services and insists on the need to take extreme precautions with the unconfiscated weapons.
- The Bohemia magazine publishes Fidel’s article “!Basta ya de mentiras!” (Enough with the lies), which was sent from the Mexican prison where he was detained, and would have major repercussions on domestic public opinion.
- He sends a message to Juan Manuel Márquez asking him to take the necessary steps to overcome the difficult circumstances and carry the revolutionary project forward.
- José Antonio Echevarría, President of the University Student Federation (FEU, by its Spanish initials), raises his voice to demand justice for Fidel Castro and his detained comrades in Mexico in an article published that day by Bohemia under the title: “¿Quebrará México su tradición de hospitalidad?” (Will Mexico break its tradition of hospitality?).
- Many comrades and friends go to the Miguel Schultz Immigrant Detention Center to visit Fidel and his comrades. Cuban Teresa Casuso, wife and collaborator of Pablo de la Torriente Brau during the 1930’s is among the visitors, accompanied by a photographer in charge of making a report on the revolutionary leader.
- Other surviving expeditionaries and peasants from the area have joined the guerrilla force, and its first victorious action takes place with the capture of the La Plata Abajo barracks in the heart of the Sierra Maestra.
- The small guerrilla force has a new victory at Llanos del Infierno, against an enemy elite troop commanded by the then lieutenant Ángel Sánchez Mosquera.
- Columns 1 and 4, commanded by Fidel and Che Guevara respectively, reject the so-called “winter offensive” of Batista’s army. Battles are fought at Mota, Gabiro, El Salto, Mar Verde and other sites in the Sierra.
- Herbert Matthews, editorial journalist for the influential US daily The New York Times, interviews Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. Publication of his report refuted dictatorship lies about the death of Fidel and showed the existence of a guerrilla force in the Sierra Maestra.
- That same day, the first meeting of the National Directorship of the July 26th Movement since the beginning of the war is held in the Sierra. The traitor Eutimio Guerra is captured and sentenced.
- The guerrilla attacks and captures the El Uvero military garrison, in a combat which Che Guevara considered to be “the coming of age of the Rebel Army”.
- Fidel promotes Ernesto Che Guevara to Commander of the Rebel Army.
- Battle of Palma Mocha, fought by the José Martí Column 1 forces commanded by Fidel Castro.