BREAKING: No mass shootings in Cuba this year (and none since 1959)

[Marcus IM]

Not including the US backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, there have been a very few shootings, this doesn't qualify as a mass shooting ...

CUBA SAYS GUARD AT BASE WAS SHOT; LAYS KILLING TO U.S. MARINES —CHARGE IS DENIED

HAVANA, July 20, 1964 (UPI)—Raul Castro, Minister of the Armed Forces, charged today: that United States marine; guards at the Guantanamo Bay naval base shot and killed a Cuban sentry at dusk yesterday.

As a result of the charge, diplomatic circles speculated that Premier Fidel Castro might withdraw the peace overtures he made to the United States in a recent interview.

Although the Cubans have alleged two other shootings of sentries along the Guantanamo Bay fence in the last six weeks, this was the first time that anyone had been reported killed. Two sentries were reported wounded in the earlier incidents.

The Defense Ministry, in a communique signed by the Premier's younger brother, said the marine post at 7:07 P.M. fired six shots at the Cuban sentry box. It said Pvt. Ramon Lopez Pena, 19 years old, was shot twice in the neck and died 20 minutes later. No further details were given.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/21/archives/cuba-says-guard-at-base-was-shot-lays-killing-to-us-marines-charge.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. According the the NY Times article, 4 yrs after the revolution, Fidel Castro still sought peace.

This, and other murders, were not "accidental." Two shots into the neck of that young Cuban sentry weren't accidental. Furthermore, it appears he wasn't standing far from them. Next, from the article:

The Havana radio said the sentry had been “killed by the Yankee troops from the naval base.”
The marines have sentry boxes on the perimeter of the base. Cuban troops are posted roughly paralleling those of the marines.

Clearly the US Americans, in their sentry stations, on Cuban soil, for which they were paying $2,000.00 per year since 1905, the same rate they decided to pay when they took the base, wouldn't have had a lot of trouble lining up their shots to kill the Cuban guard right on the other side of the fence.

Cuba never cashed the lease checks after the revolution, always maintaining the base was taken by force, and is illegal. There is no agreement to accept Guantanamo US Naval Base.

I never knew the US military was "brushing back" the Cuban sentries around the Naval base by murdering them, as if they had no right to patrol their own country's property.

So damned sad.

Thank you.