“Former Batista Army Jose Rodriguez Receives Last Rites From a Priest at Matanzas, Cuba”
“Former Batista Army Jose Rodriguez Receives Last Rites From a Priest at Matanzas, Cuba” by Andrew Lopez Lopez, photographer for United Press International, won the Pulitzer award in 1960 for his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of Dictator Batista’s army, who was executed by a Castro firing squad. Fidel Castro and his Barbudos (Bearded Ones) guerillas stormed through Havana in January 1959, celebrating the fall of hated dictator Fulgencio Batista. Lopez was assigned to the war crimes trial at San Severino Castle, a former military installation complete with a moat. Hundreds of Cubans were on hand, eager to testify against brutal Batista army corporal Jose Rodriguez, known as “Pepe Caliente”. The principal picture shows the condemned man receiving the last rites before his execution. -- source link
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