Just three days after claiming responsibility for a poster against the regime in El Vedado, the clandestine group known as El Nuevo Directorio (END) wrote this Thursday “No to the PCC (Communist Party of Cuba)” on the building’s façade Located at 7 Humboldt Street, where several of the young assailants of the Presidential Palace were murdered in 1957.
The sign was painted in large black letters on the ground floor of the building, in a state building that is under repair and has glass windows covered by boards, near the plaque that commemorates the event.
In its account on Twitter, the movement explained that the graffiti It was a tribute to the members of the Student Directorate, one of the opposition organizations to Fulgencio Batista under the leadership of José Antonio Echeverría, and who wanted to remember the “massacre” that was carried out in that same place by the Batista Police “with a action against the Castro dictatorship”.
END intends to recall the “massacre” that was carried out in that same place by the Batista Police “with an action against the Castro dictatorship”
In its publication, END described that on April 20, 1957, the young men Juan Pedro Carbó Serviá, Fructuoso Rodríguez Pérez, José Machado Rodríguez and Joe Westbrook Rosales “were intercepted” at Humboldt 7, where they had hidden after the assault on the Palace, and there they were “riddled with bullets”, “without weapons to defend themselves”.
“Blood bathed the stairs of the building, where there was no compassion even at the request of the residents of the building. The corpses were dragged into the street in a show of arrogance by Captain Estevan Ventura Novo, a famous torturer and murderer,” they recalled.
That event, the group explains, is a reminder of “how many young people have given their lives for the freedom of all” in Cuba, and they consider it a “fundamental” precedent for the fight against “every dictatorship or tyranny that is attempted to be imposed on our town”.
Another photograph, shared this Thursday morning on the same Twitter account, showed that the poster had not yet been covered by the political police.
Another photograph, shared this Thursday morning on the same Twitter account, showed that the poster had not yet been covered by the political police.
Although it is a few meters from very central places such as Habana Libre and La Rampa, Humboldt street has been falling out of favor and is almost always dark and not very busy at night.
Last Monday, El Nuevo Directorio painted a poster against the Communist Party at the entrance to the stadium of the University of Havana, on Ronda de El Vedado street. As usual, they signed the sign with the acronym END that identifies the clandestine organization.
The message is the same one that appeared at dawn on March 23 a short distance from there, in Parque Aguirre, and was likewise presumed by the dissident organization in a video broadcast on its social networks. In both cases and after separate operations, the posters were covered by the Police.
“Honour, honor”: to the Martyrs of the Humboldt 7 Massacre, the predecessors of the Student Directorate, our tribute as best we can honor them; with an action against the Castro Dictatorship #BAJOLADICTADURACASTROCANEL pic.twitter.com/war0zhT8O4
— The New Directory (@NuevoDirectorio) April 20, 2023
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