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...Castro," he relates slowly, "in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. I had become the head of the Havana resistance and I went up and down three times to his headquarters to see him." Did he have any idea at that time that some of the 26th of July leaders were Communists? "In the last month only we begin to be suspicious." Was Castro then a Communist? "Yes. I think he was always a Communist; I think he has always in mind Cuba in the Russian bloc. He waited a year. In the first year after the Revolution were many reforms...
...late April and early May, 1960, his active resistance to the Castro regime began. He was the co-founder of MRP, and, as he had been in the resistance to Batista, he was the sabotage expert. "All the MRP were members, with Fidel, in the 26th of July movement. We left him because of the Communists." In August, Manuel Ray resigned from Havana University in protest against the repression of academic freedom. Three months later he left Havana and came to Miami with his family to direct MRP sabotage work from there...
...facing an easy problem. We know that," Manolo Ray admitted last night at a Winthrop House Forum. But, he maintained, his Cuban underground is determined to fight Castro until it has restored the original program of the 26th of July movement...
After the 26th of July movement in 7 Ray served as Minister of Public rks in the Castro government until vember of 1959. Then, he said, he "be-me worried about the Communist in-nces in the government and the loss freedom of the press." When Castro k control of the University of Havana, re Ray was a professor, he went erground and began to organize...
Moving to Miami eight months before Batista fell, Miró united anti-Batista groups in exile under the banner of Castro's 26th of July Movement. Four days after Castro's triumph, Miró was named Premier of Cuba (Castro stayed on as armed-forces chief). Miró soon realized he was nothing but Castro's puppet, resigned after 39 days. He told a friend: "I cannot run my office while another man is trying to run it from behind a microphone...