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Antonio Veciana, a Cuban anti-Castro fighter in the early 1960s who helped found the militant group Alpha 66, died Thursday in an assisted-care facility in Miami. He was 91.
The man who was military chief of Alpha 66, one of the city’s most hard-line anti- Castro paramilitary groups, said he was not only a Cuban spy, but also a double agent for the FBI.
This has been their goal since Alpha 66 was founded by 66 Cuban exiles after the failed U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. But experts wonder if their logic can be applied to modern-day reality.
Andres Nazario Sargen, 88, a leader of the anti-Castro group Alpha 66, died Wednesday in Miami of complications from colon cancer, said his daughter, Olguita Nazario.
These are new recruits for Alpha 66, the Cuban paramilitary ... Alpha 66 has been an institution in the anti-Castro Cuban community of ... exile groups expected Castro to be overthrown in some ...
“We have no radar, but we have guts,” said a member of a small group of anti-Castro exiles who call themselves Alpha 66. A few days later, a 36-ft. grey and white motorboat slipped through the ...
When Castro came to power on Jan. 1, 1959, Nazario and other guerrilla leaders had faced execution. They left for Miami in 1961 and joined with other Cuban exiles to form Alpha 66 – named for its 66 ...
Now 68 and the group's leader, he said Alpha 66 remains a large organization with some 10,000 "members or contributors" including a lot of supporters inside Cuba and chapters in Miami, New York ...
"This is Radio Free Cuba, the anti-Communist voice of Cuba broadcasting on the 40-meter band. Worker, militiaman, rebel soldier, radio ham—help topple the despot! Close ranks so that the ...
Militant anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, accused of masterminding the explosion of a Cuban airliner 40 years ago, died early on Wednesday in Florida at the ...
To some, Castro was a tyrant, a villain who ruined the Cuban economy, deprived his countrymen of freedom and drove more than a million people into exile. "Fidel Castro is a demon," says Ernesto ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Militant anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, accused of masterminding the explosion of a Cuban airliner 40 years ago, died early on Wednesday in ...