Cuba: The Massacre

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U.S. had helped. He conceded that the landing "did not achieve all of its proposed objectives," announced that he believed that "the U.S. should not intervene militarily," promised that "landings will continue to take place." Then, tears in his eyes, he walked down a hall to another room and slumped against a wall.

From a lonely hilltop in the Escambray Mountains of Cuba, a small radio voice, escaping Castro's destruction so far, still spoke in the defiant tones of freedom to the world.

*Among them: Huber Matos, one of Castro's chief lieutenants in the hills.

*"A viscous blob of human excrescences."

*Pronounced "Rye."

*Brother of Guatemala's Ambassador to the U.S.