The mystery of Camilo Cienfuegos death gets to an end.
Part 1.- Investigation based on the testimony of Commander Jaime Costa Chávez.

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán
Over the years, six decades already, the death of Camilo Cienfuegos became a kind of mystery for many Cubans, and although there are several versions that have come down to us about the fact, the truth is that to date none of them has been able to be demonstrated, which is why I decided to conduct an investigation on my own. For this, I relied on the testimony of someone who claimed to have been present at the scene, the recently deceased ex-commander of the rebel army Jaime Costa Chavez, who was also a close friend of Camilo. Author of the autobiographical book entitled «El Clarín Toca al Amanecer» (The clarion plays at dawn)*, Mr. Costa recount with enough details what happened on the night of October 28, 1959 on an airstrip located in a remote place in the Zapata Swamp, South of Matanzas province. That is the story that you will find in the previous link, which corresponds to Chapter X of the book and whose reading is essential to understand what is exposed in this work. The fact is that after reading it I was convinced that the man was telling the truth, so I decided that I would do everything possible to identify the place where that airstrip was located in 1959, which would surely have disappeared, but I had the hope that it had left some mark which allow me to find it. There was a debt with our history and so much sacrifice of true patriots that could not be ignored so easily.[Leer Más…]