To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city of Havana, the King and Queen of Spain will make a historic visit to Cuba from November 12 to 14. They will celebrate the occasion with the regime that has for decades sequestered the sovereignty of the Cuban people, committed crimes against them, and unleashed violence against many other nations.
The royals will visit San Juan Hill in Santiago de Cuba to honor the Spaniards fallen in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, missing in their official program is any act of remembrance for the 71 Cubans shot there on January 12, 1959 by direct order of Raúl Castro, Cuba’s current “Maximum Leader.”
Just days after General Batista fled the country and the "revolution" came to power on January 1st 1959, members of the military and police who had served under the Batista regime were arrested and subjected to a summary kangaroo mass "trial" without defense lawyers. They were then taken in trucks to San Juan Hill, lined up in pairs, and shot in front of a newly dug pit. They left loved ones devastated and many orphans. The massacre was ordered to sow terror in Cuba.
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