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Rolando Masferrer
Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Rojas (Spanish: [roˈlando aɾˈkaðjo masfeˈreɾ ˈroxas]; 12 January 1918 – 31 October 1975) was a Cuban henchman, lawyer, congressman, newspaper publisher and a political activist.
Joining the leftist revoluationary movement as a teenager, he fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Masferrer was elected to the Congress of Cuba for the Republican Party in 1948, and later became a supporter of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Masferrer created a guerrilla known as "Tigres de Masferrer", which was intended to fight against M-26-7. He fled to the U.S. when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. From there he plotted assassination and invasion attempts against Castro, all of which failed.
He was killed by a car bomb in Miami in 1975, aged 57.
Masferrer was born on 12 July 1918, in Holguín, former Oriente Province, Cuba. He married Lucila Montero and they had two children: Alejandro (Alex) and Liudmila.[citation needed] Rolando had two brothers: Rodolfo and Raimundo. All emigrated to the U.S. with Rolando on 1 January 1959.
Masferrer was a member of the leftist revolutionary Joven Cuba organization as a teenager. He participated in a murder plot against Colonel Jose Eleuterio Pedraza, head of Cuban National Police in 1936, and he was arrested. He was a member of Cuba's Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party) from 1935, but was expelled in 1945, and later became anti-communist. He was assistant editor of Hoy (Today), the Cuban communist daily between 1939-45. Later he published a socialist weekly called Tiempo en Cuba (Time in Cuba).
He formed part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. He was wounded in the left foot in Spain, and in Europe is said to have been an enforcer for the International Brigades, much feared for the thumping of his wounded gait when he approached his victim.[citation needed] He was lame for the rest of his life.
He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Havana with honors (Dolz Award) in 1945. Masferrer participated, with Fidel Castro and over 1,000 Cubans, in the aborted Cayo Confites expedition of 1947, which sought to overthrow Rafael Trujillo, the authoritarian leader of the Dominican Republic. He was a rival of Castro in the bloody feuds of the trigger happy action groups in Havana and subject of one failed attempt by Castro and others to kill to him in 1948. Masferrer was elected to the Cuban House of Representatives for the Republican Party in 1948. He was fluent in English, and appointed as an English teacher at Marianao High School in 1946. He was founder and leader of the Movimiento Socialista Revolucionario (MSR), that became a gang.
Masferrer was a staunch supporter of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after the latter seized power in 1952. He was a Senator for the Partido Auténtico from 1954 to 1958 in the Batista government and the leading founder of Los Tigres de Masferrer, a paramilitary organization set up to protect Batista from guerrilla groups and support Batista militarily. In this period he published two papers Tiempo in Havana and Libertad in Santiago de Cuba which insulted Francisco Franco, but without positive reaction among other leftwing Spanish Civil War exiles.
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Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Rojas (Spanish: [roˈlando aɾˈkaðjo masfeˈreɾ ˈroxas]; 12 January 1918 – 31 October 1975) was a Cuban henchman, lawyer, congressman, newspaper publisher and a political activist.
Joining the leftist revoluationary movement as a teenager, he fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Masferrer was elected to the Congress of Cuba for the Republican Party in 1948, and later became a supporter of dictator Fulgencio Batista. Masferrer created a guerrilla known as "Tigres de Masferrer", which was intended to fight against M-26-7. He fled to the U.S. when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba. From there he plotted assassination and invasion attempts against Castro, all of which failed.
He was killed by a car bomb in Miami in 1975, aged 57.
Masferrer was born on 12 July 1918, in Holguín, former Oriente Province, Cuba. He married Lucila Montero and they had two children: Alejandro (Alex) and Liudmila.[citation needed] Rolando had two brothers: Rodolfo and Raimundo. All emigrated to the U.S. with Rolando on 1 January 1959.
Masferrer was a member of the leftist revolutionary Joven Cuba organization as a teenager. He participated in a murder plot against Colonel Jose Eleuterio Pedraza, head of Cuban National Police in 1936, and he was arrested. He was a member of Cuba's Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party) from 1935, but was expelled in 1945, and later became anti-communist. He was assistant editor of Hoy (Today), the Cuban communist daily between 1939-45. Later he published a socialist weekly called Tiempo en Cuba (Time in Cuba).
He formed part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. He was wounded in the left foot in Spain, and in Europe is said to have been an enforcer for the International Brigades, much feared for the thumping of his wounded gait when he approached his victim.[citation needed] He was lame for the rest of his life.
He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Havana with honors (Dolz Award) in 1945. Masferrer participated, with Fidel Castro and over 1,000 Cubans, in the aborted Cayo Confites expedition of 1947, which sought to overthrow Rafael Trujillo, the authoritarian leader of the Dominican Republic. He was a rival of Castro in the bloody feuds of the trigger happy action groups in Havana and subject of one failed attempt by Castro and others to kill to him in 1948. Masferrer was elected to the Cuban House of Representatives for the Republican Party in 1948. He was fluent in English, and appointed as an English teacher at Marianao High School in 1946. He was founder and leader of the Movimiento Socialista Revolucionario (MSR), that became a gang.
Masferrer was a staunch supporter of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after the latter seized power in 1952. He was a Senator for the Partido Auténtico from 1954 to 1958 in the Batista government and the leading founder of Los Tigres de Masferrer, a paramilitary organization set up to protect Batista from guerrilla groups and support Batista militarily. In this period he published two papers Tiempo in Havana and Libertad in Santiago de Cuba which insulted Francisco Franco, but without positive reaction among other leftwing Spanish Civil War exiles.
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