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(Circa) May 29

The rebel group moves to the west of the Pico Turquino,¹ in the Plata Alta region, where they quickly settle in.

If you ever read Carlos Franqui’s Diary of the Cuban Revolution, you’ll see a small note of mine right on page 432:

William: The need to take out my weapon might, in my subconscious, have something to do with an incident that took place a long time ago when an armed man brandished a rifle in order to carry out an order.

It came to be like a reflex for me.

Norberto fuentes autobiography fidel castro quotes

Fidel.²

William is Commander William Gálvez, who came from the Holguín resistance and I can’t remember right now why I had the deference to explain to him my “need to take out my weapon.” It appears that I was sleeping and William approached me and I woke up with my Browning in hand.

I don’t go on, however, to explain who that armed man was who introduced that new reflexive act to my being. It’s one of the Cuban Revolution’s best kept secre