Cuba Archive - Case 5413

Case ID: 5413

Title: N/A

First name: Mario

Last name: Bravo Cervantes

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: Mario Bravo, Mario Bravo Cervante

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:24 / Month:6 / Year:1964

Citizenship: Cuba

Last known address: Finca La Jagua, Circuito Norte, Los Ramones Viejos, Batey Lowreg

Last known city: Municipio de Morón (today Municipio Florencia)

Last known province-TOD: Camagüey

Last known province current: Ciego de Ávila

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: N/A

Location of death - city: Blanquizal de Mayajigua

Location of death province - at TOD: Las Villas

Location of death province - current: Las Villas

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: No

Docket Number: N/A

Sentence details: N/A

Arrest or detention at time of death: No

Date of arrest: N/A

Imprisoned/Detained: Location: N/A

How long imprisoned/detained: N/A

Death attributed to: Castro regime

Death attribution detail: Government militia led by Lizardo Proenza

Associated Event: Anti-Castro insurgency - Escambray uprising

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Encinosa, 1994, p. 181, and Gómez Estrada, 1990, p. 165, report him killed on Jun. 22, 1964. Encinosa, 1989, pp. 89 and 139, reports him killed in combat at los Ramónes, Camagüey province.  Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of June 25, 2022. Beruvides, 1993, p. 95, reports him killed in combat at Yaguajay, Las Villas province.  WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 38; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro`s Genocide, 1994, report him  executed by firing squad in the city of Matanzas in 1963.  Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 13; and Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 43, report him killed in combat at Los Ramónes, Las Villas province in June 1964.  Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana, 2002, p. 23, reports him killed in combat on 06/25/1964.  E. Ros, El clandestinaje, 2006, p. 367, reports the victim as Mario Bravo, executed by firing squad on March 23, 1963. Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of April 28, 2022, reports him executed on April 28, 1963.

Violation Status: Confirmed with primary source(s)

Cause of Death: - Combat: Fatality or Missing in Action

Occupations: - Personal Care and Service Occupations

External Files: N/A

Relatives in Archive: - Brother/Sister in Case 5388: Gregorio Bravo Cervantes

Victim Type: - Anti-Castro insurgent or resistance member

Affiliations: N/A

Other Victims Same Event: N/A

Case Record - Mario Bravo Cervantes