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“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

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The Crisis in Cuba: Francisco

The victims were all white. Their bodies were thrown into a huge sugar boiler, which lies half buried on the roadside on the land owned by J. Cabrera. Here is a list of white men shot without trial in the same neighborhood, opposite the Jesus Maria grocery store, on the Arango estate. Martin Sosa, single, farmer. Andres Guillama, and his assistant, both married and farmers. Francisco Diaz and son, farmers. Leonardo Llerena, farmer. Luz Gutierrez and son, farmers. Caridad Reyes, farmer. Francisco Ferrer, farmer. Benito Bueno, farmer. Julio Hernandez, father of twelve children, farmer. Abelardo Cartaya, farmer, and three others whose names I cannot ascertain at present moment.

Most of these were taken from their ploughs. The following non-combatants were also shot without trial, and thrust into the sugar boiler on the highway in Minas:

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