Cuba Archive - Case 4557

Case ID: 4557

Title: N/A

First name: Francisco

Last name: Cruz González

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: Lino Cruz González, Francisco Cruz Morales, Francisco Morales

Age: 37

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:9 / Month:4 / Year:1963

Citizenship: Cuba

Last known address: Arroyo Blanco

Last known city: Jatibonico

Last known province-TOD: Camagüey

Last known province current: Sancti Spíritus

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: Shooting practice field

Location of death - city: Camagüey

Location of death province - at TOD: Camagüey

Location of death province - current: Camagüey

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: Yes

Docket Number: N/A

Sentence details: Capital punishment.

Arrest or detention at time of death: Yes

Date of arrest: N/A

Imprisoned/Detained: Location: N/A

How long imprisoned/detained: N/A

Death attributed to: Castro regime

Death attribution detail: N/A

Associated Event: Anti-Castro insurgency/resistance

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana, 2002, p. 20 reports him executed by firing squad on 05/31/1963.  Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; and United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1964, both report a Lino Cruz González, age 22, executed in Guanito, Pinar del Río, in 1964 on charges of conspiracy against the powers of the state.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 105; Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 47; Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 41; and Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 21, all report a Francisco Cruz Morales or Francisco Morales, executed May 31, 1963 at Jatibonico, Camaguey province.  Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994,and United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1965, report a Francisco Morales, age 27, executed in 1965 in Matanzas. Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of May 13, 2022, reports a Francisco Cruz Morales, captured after being wounded in a shootut and executed in Camagüey.

Violation Status: Reported: Highly likely / Highly reliable source(s)

Cause of Death: - Execution: by firing squad

Occupations: - Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

External Files: N/A

Relatives in Archive: N/A

Victim Type: - Anti-Castro insurgent or resistance member

Affiliations: N/A

Other Victims Same Event: N/A

Case Record - Francisco Cruz González