9 October 2000
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/world/08CUBA.html
8 October 2000
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7 — When he was arrested by the Mexican government this week, a Cuban spy on the run from his government was carrying a document, parts of which [below] were made public today, in which he outlined his career running operations against the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Cuban official, Pedro Riera Escalante, who was summarily deported by Mexico to Havana on Wednesday, served under cover as the Cuban consul here from 1986 through 1991. In the document, he described Cuban espionage operations against the C.I.A. station in Mexico City and other operations he ran in Europe and Africa.
His deportation ended his month-long effort to win political asylum in Mexico.
Mr. Riera, who had become deeply disillusioned with his president, Fidel Castro, also spoke about his intelligence work in general terms in conversations with The New York Times, with Mexican foreign relations and national security officials with whom he discussed asylum and with human rights advocates who helped him petition for refuge.
In the document, excerpts of which were published by the Mexico City newspaper Reforma on Friday, Mr. Riera said that he had recruited scores of Mexican informants, including officials, businessmen, intelligence officers and journalists.
Among the successes he claimed was a 1989 operation, code-named "Lupa," or "Magnifying Glass," in which he said he obtained the correspondence of recruited C.I.A. agents in Mexico. Another operation was code-named "Moncada," in which he said he used a renegade C.I.A. officer, Philip Agee, to try to recruit the secretary of the deputy chief of the C.I.A. station in Mexico City. United States intelligence officials have described the operation as a total failure, saying Mr. Agee, who broke publicly with the C.I.A. in the 1970's and is regarded by the agency as a traitor, was quickly identified, and his approach rebuffed. Mr. Agee did not return an e-mail sent to his office in Cuba on Tuesday.
Mr. Riera said he had worked with Mr. Agee for years. He said the work began in 1973, when he was a liaison between Mr. Agee and the Cuban Politburo, when Mr. Agee was writing a book exposing C.I.A. secrets. Mr. Riera said that he conveyed suggestions from the government about what information Mr. Agee should disclose in his book. He said telephone numbers for C.I.A. officials in the United States Embassy in Mexico City provided by Mr. Agee proved useful to Cuba years later, when Mr. Riera was posted here, helping him identify which embassy personnel were C.I.A. officers.
United States officials have not commented on Mr. Riera's case, other than a statement from the American Embassy in Mexico City expressing concern about his fate in Cuba.
After a number of overseas assignments, including one in 1977 in which he said he persuaded President Samora Machel to throw C.I.A. personnel out of Mozambique, Mr. Riera said he was assigned by his bosses in Cuba's General Directorate of Intelligence to draw up a manual to instruct Cuban spies about how best to infiltrate the C.I.A.
The manual, "Methodology for Recruitment of C.I.A. Staff Personnel," became a standard training tool for Cuban agents, he said. It demanded personal and psychological profiles of potential recruits to pinpoint weaknesses and vulnerabilities. And it advised using money, not ideology, to lure C.I.A. personnel into collaborating.
Mr. Riera was proud of what he regarded as highly effective work by Cuban intelligence against the C.I.A. during his service. He accused Mr. Castro of destroying the Cuban agency by turning it to his political ends.
Mr. Riera, who is 49, joined the Cuban directorate as a teenager in 1969, the documents show. He was recalled to Cuba in 1992 and stepped down from active duty a year later, with the rank of major. He remains on reserve.
In conversations with The Times, Mr. Riera said that he did not want to seek exile in the United States, but hoped for safe haven in Mexico. Reuters reported today from Havana that Mr. Riera was back in Cuba but his whereabouts were not known.
Mexican officials gave conflicting accounts about Mr. Riera's deportation. The Foreign Ministry confirmed that two senior officials there met with Mr. Riera in recent weeks to hear his safe haven request. Foreign Minister Rosario Green said through her spokesman that she turned the matter over to the Interior Ministry, which handles both national security and immigration.
But José Ángel Pescador Osuna, the Interior Ministry's top official for immigration, said today that he had heard nothing about Mr. Riera from the Foreign Ministry and had no record of an asylum request. He said Mr. Riera was deported because he did not produce a valid Mexican visa.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/world/06MEXI.html
6 October 2000
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 5 — The State Department expressed concern today about the fate of Pedro Riera Escalante, a former Cuban intelligence official who sought political asylum here but was forcibly repatriated to Havana on Wednesday.
The United States Embassy here called on the Mexican government to take responsibility for Mr. Riera's fate. The Mexican government, after sending armed immigration agents to seize Mr. Riera from a sidewalk in this capital and putting him on a plane to Havana, said it had instructed its embassy in Havana to try to monitor what was happening to him.
"We are very concerned about the human rights implications raised by this action and have asked for a full explanation" from the Mexican government, said a spokesman for the United States Embassy, Stephen B. Morisseau. He said Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow had asked the Mexican Foreign Ministry to take responsibility for Mr. Riera.
"Given the involvement of the Mexican government in this matter," Mr. Morisseau said, "we believe they have a special responsibility to ensure the safety of this individual in Cuba."
Mr. Riera landed in Havana on a commercial flight in the custody of a Mexican immigration agent, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. He is "under the Cuban government's jurisdiction," the spokesman added.
Mr. Riera's fate is uncertain, but conceivably dire. He worked here in the post of consul in the Cuban Embassy from 1986 to 1991, he told human-rights advocates here who had been trying to help him gain asylum for four weeks. But in reality, he told them, he was a major in the Cuban spy service, the General Directorate of Intelligence, and had for 20 years run operations aimed at disrupting the Central Intelligence Agency.
He said he had broken with the agency and wanted to leave Cuba. The service does not look kindly on dissenters, and former United States intelligence officials said Mr. Riera would most likely face a secret trial and, at best, a long prison sentence.
Diplomats here said they could only speculate on why the government had seized and deported Mr. Riera. One said because Mr. Riera's work here included recruiting Mexican officials, it was possible that Mexico wanted to avoid a potential spy scandal in the government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/world/05MEXI.html
5 October 2000
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4 — A longtime Cuban intelligence official who had broken with his government and sought political refuge here was arrested by armed immigration agents on Tuesday night and deported to Cuba this morning, government officials and human-rights advocates said today.
The Cuban, Pedro Riera Escalante, had been stationed here as a diplomat, in the post of consul in the Cuban Embassy, from 1986 to 1991. His legal representatives in Mexico City also identified him as a major in the Cuban intelligence service who was seeking political asylum. He told The New York Times little more than an hour before he was arrested that he wanted to leave Cuba for a safe haven and feared for his life if he fell into the hands of his old service.
After that meeting, late Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Riera went to see a Mexican national security official, José Luis Báez, to pursue his asylum request. He was accompanied by an exiled Cuban journalist, Edelmiro Castellanos.
Mr. Castellanos said the meeting, at Sanborn's, a popular restaurant, ended with Mr. Báez's assurances that "we expect a prompt solution to this problem." Minutes later, at 6:15, seven armed men seized Mr. Riera on the sidewalk, shoved him into an unmarked white van, and drove away, Mr. Castellanos said.
A Mexican official said today that the armed men were immigration agents who held Mr. Riera overnight and put him on a commercial flight to Havana this morning. Mr. Riera was "illegally in Mexico" and had been deported, the official said.
Mr. Riera left Cuba clandestinely about six weeks ago. He had been petitioning Mexico for asylum for a month, meeting with senior Foreign Ministry and national security officials, said Rafael Álvarez, a human- rights advocate. The Foreign Ministry confirmed those meetings and Mr. Riera's request for refuge.
"The only response he got to his request for asylum in Mexico was his disappearance and deportation," said Mr. Álvarez, who called the Mexican government's conduct a violation of international law.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said Mr. Riera's request had been sent to the Interior Ministry, which handles state security. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said Mr. Riera's rights had been respected during his detention, because officials from the Cuban Embassy were present when he was questioned.
In conversations in Mexico City with his advocates, Mr. Castellanos and two reporters, Mr. Riera, 49, said he started working as a spy in 1973. He was in Europe, Africa and Mexico, and ran operations aimed at discrediting or disrupting the Central Intelligence Agency, he said.
He told the Mexican rights advocates who were representing him that his work in Mexico, under cover as a diplomat from 1986 to 1991, included recruiting and managing agents, among them Mexican officials, who collaborated with the Cuban government.
But in 1991, he said, his cover was blown by TV Martí, the anti-Castro television station based in the United States that broadcasts to Cuba. He returned to Cuba.
He said his faith in Mr. Castro had suffered "three shocks." First, he said, was the purge of his uncle, Aníbal Escalante, a Communist leader in Cuba before Mr. Castro's 1959 revolution. Mr. Castro fell out with Mr. Escalante in the 1960's and denounced him on television. Mr. Riera said he admired his uncle and was hurt by the attack. Ever since, he said, "the Escalante name brings Fidel Castro bad memories."
Second, he said, was when his own service began to investigate him in 1989 for advocating reforms like greater freedom to travel for Cubans.
The third, and most devastating, shock was the summary trial and execution of a top general, Arnaldo Ochoa, and a senior intelligence official, Antonio de la Guardia, in 1989. Mr. Riera said the episode shattered a highly effective intelligence agency, leaving many officers demoralized and bewildered. He said that in the 90's, the intelligence service degenerated into an instrument of internal repression serving mainly to protect Mr. Castro's power.
On Tuesday, in the conversation shortly before his arrest, he was worried and tense. He spoke of the case of Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, like himself a major in the spy service, who defected to the United States in 1987. In 1988 in London, a Cuban official tried to shoot Mr. Aspillaga, but missed. Mr. Riera said Cuban intelligence officials had orders to shoot Mr. Aspillaga on sight.
As he ended the conversation, he said he worried that Mexico might deny him asylum, forcing him to seek safety in another country — not the United States. He said his biggest fear was falling into the hands of his own service.
[Translation by Cryptome. Articles undated; all probably published during the past week, earliest first, the last in Reforma 9 October 2000.]
http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/038279/
It deported the ex-Consul of Cuba in Mexico, Pedro Aníbal Riera, after he was not able to obtain asylum poltíco.
By Reformation Group
Mexico City, Mexico. - An ex-official of Cuban Intelligence, who at the end of his service was Consul of Cuba in Mexico for the last decade, was deported yesterday to the island after failing in his covert efforts for almost a year to obtain political asylum, first with the United States and then with Mexican authorities.
Pedro Aníbal Riera Escalante, senior retired officer of the Main Directorate of Inteligencia (DGI), with more than 25 years in the Cuban secret services, was sent back as an undocumented person after not being able to gain his legal residency in Mexico, according to the National Institute of Migración (INM).
In spite of having broken ties with active intelligence seven years ago, Escalante had provided on firt hand information on the activities of Cuban espionage in Mexico during the period between 1986 and 1992, when he served as Consul and an operative official of the DGI, which specialized in a war against the American agency.
In the last months, REFORMATION had access to the history of the ex-agent, who was said to have classified information on a network of informants and Mexican collaborators who worked as much for Havana as for the agency, including industralists, politicians, intelligence agents, media journalists and directors.
The Arrest
Escalante was arrested at 18:15 hours of Tuesday by six armed agents, who were said to belong to the INM, when he left the Sanborns restaurant located in the Cuauhtémoc Avenue, in the Rome Colony.
There he engaged in a conversation with Jose Luis Valleys, a civil employee of the Center of Intelligence and National Security (Cisen), according to a Castilian Cuban journalist exiliado Edelmiro, who witnessed the arrest.
The Mexican Chancellery confirmed that the Cuban had asked for political asylum in that office on 8 of September, but the case was sent to the Secretariat of Interior.
The commissioner of the INM, Alexander Cheek, denied that the Cisen had informed on the illegality situation of Escalante, and alleged that he was expelled when unable to show the ommigration agents legal documentation to ask for the asylum and to remain in Mexico.
His Story
In his bulky file of services for Cuban intelligence he emphasizes the consultant's office that Escalante offered Phillip Agee, the ex-agent of the CIA that in 1975 exposed the heart of that secret service with his book "Inside the Company", that disclosed its operations every in the world.
During long months between 1974 and 1975, Escalante was the official in charge of correcting Agee's texts.
After a long process of decline as a politician with the regime of Fidel Castro, Esclante fled approximately a year ago from Cuba to Mexico.
The last months he passed in hotels and houses hidden in the District Federal and Cuernavaca, with frequent trips to Dominican Republic.
Mewanwhile, he tried to arrange asylum in a third country, because he feared for his security by remaining in Mexico.
In that period he tried approaches to officials of the CIA who apparently distrusted his story and postponed acting on his requests, according the ex-agent.
In the last weeks, with increasing desperation, Escalante tried to obtain refuge in Mexico.
Besides contacts with the Chancellery and the Cisen, he visited with the historian Sergio Aguayo, the writer Carlos Monsiváis and the ex-Senator Adolph Aguilar Zinser, coordinator of International Subjects of the Team of Transition of Vicente Fox. but was not successful with any of them.
http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/038422/
Mexico lost an opportunity to know details operations of intelligence of Cuba and EU in their territory, reports Sergio Aguayo
By Maria Elena Medina / Reformation Group
Mexico City, Mexico. - The deportation of Pedro Aníbal Riera Escalante, ex-civil employee of intelligence and ex-Consul of Cuba, on the part of the Mexican migratory authorities is one "infamy", Sergio Aguayo said yesterday.
It is "infamy because they did not give the legal protection to him, he did not have due process (to obtain the political asylum). We are speaking of one of the highest civil employees of the Cuban Government who has deserted, the highest that has deserted in our country", he said.
The historian and ex- president of the Mexican Academy of Human rights informed that during a visit on 12 of September he was told Escalante had information on the operations in Mexico of the CIA and the network of intelligence of Cuba, including names of informants in the Mexican Government.
He said that Escalante, who deserted after 25 years of work of intelligence for the Castro regime, was about to to grant a series of interviews to recount his experience as agent in charge of investigating the activities of the company (Central Agency of Intelligence of the United States).
"Apparently, we found out, he had a great amount of details on what the CIA was doing in Latin America. He never gave great details to us of what he was going to tell, but what he said to us was sufficient to realize that it was a very important account ", Aguayo said.
"From what he said, I reached the conclusion that we were going to have something of light on an aspect of which nobody has spoken. A legend exists on the presence of the CIA in Mexico, but there is no information on the activities of Cuban intelligence in Mexico, who are their contacts, who are their informants, and what are the agreements that it has with the Mexican Government.
"We will remain without never knowing what is that aspect of history, because when arresting him and deporting him we deprived ourselves of that information", he added.
The investigator of the School of Mexico indicated that yesterday, around the 13:00 hours, he spoke with the Secretary of Foreign Relations, Rosario Green, who confirmed the deportation of Escalante.
"Rosario Green gave this version to me: Foreign Relations did not correspond to the subject of Escalante, and it is right, it referred him to Interior because it was territorial asylum, and Interior decided to deport him", she said.
Escalante aimed to stay with the writer Carlos Monsiváis and the ex-Senator Adolph Aguilar Zinser, coordinator of International Subjects of the Team of Transition of Vicente Fox.
http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/038765/
The Cuban spy Pedro Riera Escalante infiltrated to Mexico to the intelligence services of EU.
By Reformation Group
Federal District, Mexico. - During almost two decades the Cuban spy Pedro Riera Escalante was the key piece in the infiltration of the intelligence services of the Embassy of the United States in Mexico through a network of local and foreign informants.
The Cuban Consul between 1986 and 1992, he was apprehended and expelled Wednesday in a matter of hours by the National Institute from Migration.
In decline with the regime of Fidel Castro, Escalante left the island a year back and, some weeks ago, he asked for political asylum to the Chancellery, that it considered that the case belonged to Interior.
In Havana, the Government kept yesterday absolute mute on his legal situation, and his whereabouts were not known.
Weeks before his arrest, Escalante had contacted REFORMATION and he mentioned that in the last six years Cuban Intelligence had enlisted up to 150 Mexican informants, from supporters of the left to industralists, members of the security agencies, politicians and journalists, but avoided mentioning names.
Citing American diplomatic sources, the newspaper The New York Times indicated that the expeditious expulsion of the Cuban could be due to the interest of Mexico in avoiding a potential scandal of espionage in the Government.
First as head of the "Mexico Group" of Section Q-14 of the Main directorate of Inteligencia (DGI) and soon as a spy with cover of Consul, Escalante oversaw between 1978 and 1992 the activities of the members of "CIA Station" in the American Embassy.
"That station is one of the major ones in the world for its enormous number of personnel and a budget of tens of millions of dollars", said the veteran agent in a document to which REFORMATION had access after his arrest.
In 80 years [sic], the local informers opened the doors for Escalante and his men to spy on their American enemies in Mexico.
The ex-Cuban agent mentions the Q-187 operation "Turquino" against a CIA official between 1984 and 1985; "Dawn", directed at the official Sara in 1987, and "Moncada", focused on the secretary of the Deputy Head of the CIA in Mexico in that same period.
One of the major successes in his file of services came about in 1989 during what was called "Operation Magnifying glass", when through a Mexican informer Cuba had access to good a part of the correspondence of the agents of the CIA in Mexico.
Escalante, 49 years, rose to the head of the DGI in 1969 in just 18 years. It was one long race that culminated in 1993, when their heads sent him into retirement.
Among his services are emphasized the recruitment of double agents and the penetration of "CIA Stations" in Mexico, Japan, Spain, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Mozambique, Uruguay and Guyana.
He was also, in 1983, the one in charge to modernize the strategy, or "Methodology", of Cuba for the "Recruitment of Personnel of the CIA".
With that aim, a plan of one hundred pages that, three years later, would be adopted by the espionage of the Castro regime like the "Governing Document" to recruit agents abroad, with exception of the United States processed.
From that strategy, Cuban Intelligence focused clearly its objectives to the recruitment of "native personnel" of the American Embassies, with means to reunite biographical information, psychological and operative that revealed the "vulnerabilities" of the civil employees of the CIA to be able to approach them.
http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/038799/
"The magnitude of interest has surprised us that has occurred in the case", the spokesman of the Embassy declared, Lazaro Matías.
By Maria Of Luz González / Reformation Group
Mexico city, Mexico. - The Embassy of Cuba in Mexico dismissed yesterday the circumstances that led to the deportation from their ex-intelligence agent Pedro Aníbal Riera Escalante, and expressed his surprise by the coverage of the case.
"The magnitude has surprised that has occurred to the case", the spokesman of the Embassy, Lazaro Matías, declared.
"It was a routine procedure, a deportation like any other, because he is not first that occurs, it has been done already in other cases", he added.
According to Matías, the diplomatic representation nothing knew of the attempts of the ex-spy in search of political asylum.
The only information that had the Embassy on the case, he explained, was the communication of the National Institute of Migration on the illegal stay in Mexico of a Cuban citizen, and thus should be deported.
It was required that the Cuban Consulate receive the notification and it was in charge of offering legal attendance to the ex-official of Intelligence.
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http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/039180/
The Cuban spy Pedro Riera Escalante, deported last Wednesday, was married to a Mexican and had a immigration permission by Interior.
By Reformation Group
Mexico City, Mexico. - The Cuban spy Pedro Riera Escalante, deported Wednesday by the Government of Mexico, is married to a Mexican and had an immigration permission sent in 1998 by Interior to be in the country, which would have allowed him to become naturalized.
Escalante, who worked as Consul in the Embassy of Cuba in Mexico between 1986 and 1992, was key piece in the infiltration to the American intelligence services in the country.
According to the certificate number 433156, sent by the Civil Registry of the Department of the Federal District, Escalante contracted civil marriage in Havana with the Mexican Maria of Socorro Yánez, on 12 of December of 1997.
Forty days later, the 22 of January of 1998, Judge Alexander Villegas, of the Central office of the Civil Registry of the DF, certified the marriage made in Havana.
According to the effective laws from 1998, foreigners married to a Mexican have the possibility of transacting their naturalization.
Governmental sources consulted explained that, in the great majority of the cases, if a foreigner married with a person of Mexican nationality or children born in Mexico has migratory problems and he has not become naturalized, the Secretariat of Interior offers the opportunity him to regularize himself.
But in addition, the 26 of March of 1998, the National Institute of Migración (INM) sent a permission so that Escalante entered Mexico as an "immigrant".
According to the General Law of Population, the immigrant is defined as "the foreigner who goes into in the country in order to be in it".
The permission was valid for a year and it gave him 45 days to enter Mexico.
In spite of that the authorities never sent the prescribed permission to him to leave the country on the established date.
The INM granted a prorogation to him of 60 days to document himself in Mexico and to obtain an Immigration Formula 2, of immigrant. Once again, the ex-civil employee of the Cuban Government could not leave the island.
At least nine months ago, when the permission already had won, Escalante managed to enter Mexico by a manner not yet clarified. There he began his long attempts to request asylum.
The Government did not clarify if, at the moment for deporting him, Interior did not know about the documents that they sent.
Weeks ago, Escalante said to the REFORMATION that in the last six years, the Intelligence of its country had enlisted up to 150 Mexican informants between politicians, industralists, supporters of the left and journalists.
Wednesday, the spy was apprehended by the INM while he ate in a Sanborns restaurant, and deported to Cuba in less than 24 hours under the argument of which he could not prove his legal right to stay in the country.
The newspaper The New York Times, mentioning sources of the American Department of State, said yesterday that the deportation, made in record time, could be an evidence that the ex-Consul had information that would harm relations of Mexico and Cuba.
Two reasons to remain
- the Government of Mexico did not allow the Cuban spy to be a legal immigrant, although he had:
- Civil certificate 433156 del Registro of the DF that guarantees his union with the Mexican Maria del Socorro Yánez (der.).
- the permission that the National Institute of Migration sent the 26 of March of 1998 so that Escalante be committed to the country as an "immigrant" and with authorization to work (izq.). Later, even, it received a prorogation of the dependency.
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http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/039353/
The Ambassador of Cuba, Mario Rodriguez, denied that the Government of his country has espionage operations in Mexico.
By Daniel Millán / Reformation Group
Federal District, Mexico. - The Ambassador of Cuba, Mario Rodriguez, denied yesterday that the Government of his country has espionage operations in Mexico, as calimed by his compatriot Pedro Riera Escalante, ex-Consul and ex-spy deported last week.
"We make active work of intelligence here in Mexico, this is safe here... neither nor in the United States. And the CIA knows to it well and the Americans know it too. This we do not do", he affirmed.
Escalante was expelled by the National Institute of Migration, when not documenting his legal stay in the country, after failing in his covert attempts of almost a year to obtain political asylum, first in the United States and then with the Mexican authorities.
Interviewed in person after heading the 33 luctuoso anniversary of the guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Ambassador Rodriguez guaranteed the arguments of the Mexican authority to deport to Escalante and alluded to abound on the activities of the ex-agent.
"What the Ministry (Secretariat) of Interior has said and what they have said the immigration authorities of Mexico, I must clear neither to put nor a point nor one to him eats", answered Rodriguez.
- the gentleman was married with a Mexican, we mentioned to him.
- Pregúntele to the Mexican, he replied.
Also he denied that he has been called by the Secretariat of Foreign Relations to give explanations on the case.
The subject of Escalante, he assured, will not affect the bilateral relation between Mexico and Cuba.
"It does not have to cloud anything", he said.
Mentioning diplomatic sources, the American newspaper The New York Times considered possible that the expeditious deportation of Escalante could could be due to that he has information that would harm both countries.
Weeks back, the ex-spy contacted to REFORMATION and revealed that in the last six years the Intelligence of Cuba had recruited in Mexico up to 150 national and foreign informants, among journalists, industralists and militants of left.
The aim was to infiltrate to the "Station" of the CIA in the Embassy of the United States, he revealed.
Rodriguez denied this operation of active intelligence programs claimed by Escalante.
And of passive intelligence, he asked himself to him.
"Here in Mexico we engage in ongoing intelligence, not in the United States, nor passive. Intelligence always is ongoing, in that it is like love", said.
Of the future relation with the new Government of Vicente Fox, he declared:
"I do not know if he will be revolutionary or not, but it is the will of the Mexican town and we will always respect it, and I do not think that the relation will be bad".
In the tribute to the Che Guevara, the diplomat indicated that the Cuban Revolution considered itself to be the heir of the Mexican Revolution.
Organized by the Cuban Embassy, the tribute congregated to centenenar of people, including diplomatic personnel of the island, leftist and neighboring supporters of the Tobacco colony.
In the ceremony, a message of admiration to the Che of the national leader of the PRD, was read by Amalia Garcia.