René Ramos Latour ( Antilla , May 12, 1932 – Sierra Maestra , July 30, 1958 ) . Cuban revolutionary combatant, commander of the Rebel Army and head of Action and Sabotage of the July 26 Movement at the death of Frank País (in July 1957).
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He played an important role as organizer of the strike of April 9, 1958 . After the failure of this he went up to the Sierra Maestra where he rejoined as a combatant and received command of a column. During the Summer Offensive unleashed by the Batista Army to try to annihilate the guerrillas, he was mortally wounded in a place known as El Jobal while facing an enemy force that was trying to penetrate rebel territory.
Summary
- 1 Biographical summary
- 1 Revolutionary trajectory
- 1.1 Liberation War
- 2 Death
- 1 Revolutionary trajectory
- 2 sources
biographical synthesis
When he was a child, his family went to live in Santiago de Cuba , where he studied until he became an accountant. He started working in 1954 at Nicaro .
revolutionary trajectory
His revolutionary concerns led him to serve successively in the Liberating Action , Eastern Revolutionary Action (ARO) and National Revolutionary Action (ANR) organizations, the latter two founded and directed by Frank País . When the July 26 Movement (M-26-7) was formed, René joined its ranks.
He participated in the organization of the M-26-7 in the north of Oriente, along with Rafael Orejón Forment , also a worker at the Nicaro plant, who was assassinated during the so-called Bloody Easter . With a view to supporting the landing of the Granma , René was entrusted with carrying out military actions in Holguin territory, which he was unable to carry out because the weapons were not received.
Liberation War
At the end of 1956 , together with other colleagues, he planned the attack on the Preston sugar mill , an operation that did not materialize due to a denunciation. Later he joined the fight in the eastern capital and was part, with the ranks of lieutenant, of the first important reinforcement in men and weapons that Frank País sent to the Rebel Army led by Fidel Castro [2] [3]
He returned to Santiago de Cuba under instructions from Commander in Chief Fidel Castro. There Frank País gave him the order to form a second guerrilla front, with the rank of commander, but due to unforeseen reasons he was unable to fulfill this mission. Then Frank País appointed him his second.
When Frank died, René replaced him as chief of action and sabotage of the July 26 Movement. With the nom de guerre of Daniel, he toured the country carrying out intense conspiracy work. Upon his return to Santiago de Cuba, he intervened in the strike of April 9, 1958 and led the attack on the Boniato barracks. Tenaciously persecuted by the repressive forces of the dictatorship, it was decided to reincorporate him as a combatant of the Rebel
Army.
Fidel Castro appointed him head of Column No. 10, at the head of which he fought in Santo Domingo . In the month of July 1958 , during the Summer Offensive of the dictatorship, he left to reinforce the troops of Captain Ramón Paz and together with him participated in the victorious action of La Providencia, where Captain Paz died. The men who were in command of the fallen, passed Daniel’s headquarters and faced the troops of Ángel Sánchez Mosquera .
Death
Fidel entrusted him to go to El Jobal , with the purpose of intercepting an enemy contingent. On July 30, 1958, during the combat, René Ramos Latour was mortally wounded and his companions took him to a small village called Hormiguero. The guerrilla doctors Ernesto Guevara and Sergio del Valle Jiménez headed there to assist him, but when they managed to get there, René Ramos Latour had already died.
