- He becomes involved with the Grupo Guamá, an institution specializing in Archaeology.
Chronology
- He is elected students’ delegate for the subject of Legal Anthropology.
- Fidel is elected vice-president of the University Students’ Federation in the Faculty of Law.
- Fidel takes part in the demonstration in tribute to the student martyr Rafael Trejo, killed during the tough years of Gerardo Machado’s dictatorship.
He participates in a demonstration organized by the University Students Federation (FEU) to condemn the murder of young student Carlos Martínez Junco.
He arrives in Manzanillo accompanied by Lionel Soto, Vice President of the University Students Federation (FEU) of the Philosophy School, to request, on behalf of FEU, to the members of the Veterans association to take the Bell of La Demajagua (the Hacienda where the first war of independence in Cuba began) to Havana for a rally to protest against the corrupt government of Ramón Grau. The bell is transferred to the University of Havana and placed in custody at the Hall of the Martyrs.
A gangster group serving the interests of Education Minister José Manuel Alemán steals La Demajagua’s Bell from the University Students Federation’s Hall of the Martyrs to prevent it from being used in the popular protest against Grau San Martin’s government.
The university students start a relentless protest against the hijacking of the Bell, until its returned to the city of Manzanillo on November 12th. During a speech at the University Staircase he strongly condemns the theft and describes it as "unprecedented and outrageous affront to a relic of the Republic."
He occupies the Presidency of the Association of Law Students, after the dismissal of the acting President due to his inability to lead the students and his links to interests outside of the university
He is arrested by the Secret Police, along with other student leaders, at the intersection of San José and Mazón streets in Havana, while meeting in support of one of the presidential candidates for the University Students Federation (FEU Spanish Language Acronym), which advocates the moralization of the situation in the University. They are taken to the headquarters of the National Police Extraordinary Special Investigations Service at Castillo del Príncipe.
He is released around 11 am after his arrest the previous day and his imprisonment in the Castillo del Príncipe by the Secret Police lead by Mario Salabarría. At the jails door, he denounces the arbitrary detention to the press. In the coming weeks he would suffer countless pressures to abandon the student struggle.
- Fidel takes part in preparations for the aborted Cayo Confites expedition to fight against the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.
He signs together with other student leaders a Manifesto repudiating the results of the student elections at the University of Havana, denouncing the fraud, arbitrary appointment of leaders and absolute violation of the ideological principles by members of the executive board.