Cuba Archive - Case 6175

Case ID: 6175

Title: N/A

First name: Francisco

Last name: Noval Méndez

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: Paco Pico

Name also reported as: Francisco Novales Méndez, Francisco Morales, Francisco Nodal, Francisco Nodal Méndez, Francisco Novales Menéndez, Francisco Nodales Méndez, Francisco Pico

Age: N/A

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:7 / Month:3 / Year:1967

Citizenship: Cuba

Last known address: N/A

Last known city: N/A

Last known province-TOD: N/A

Last known province current: N/A

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: Isla de los Pinos prison

Location of death - city: Isla de Pinos

Location of death province - at TOD: Isla de Pinos / Isla de l

Location of death province - current: Isla de la Juventud

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: N/A

Docket Number: N/A

Sentence details: N/A

Arrest or detention at time of death: Yes

Date of arrest: N/A

Imprisoned/Detained: Location: Isla de Pinos prison

How long imprisoned/detained: N/A

Death attributed to: Castro regime

Death attribution detail: Police

Associated Event: N/A

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Fifth Special Report, 1976, p. 3, reports the victim assassinated on February 28, 1967.  Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 19, reports him assassinated in prison on March 7, 1967.  Díaz Rodríguez, 1995, p. 105, reports him assassinated at Isla de Pinos prison in February 1967.  Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana contra el Totalitarismo, 2002, p. 26, reports him assassinated at Isla de Pinos  prison on February 28, 1987.  Instituto de la memoria histórica, www.cubamemorial.net/listado, reports date of death as February 28, 1967.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 147; Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 21; Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 17; and Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 57, report the victim as Francisco Morales Menéndez, assassinated by police in his prison cell at Isla de Pinos prison on February 28, 1967. Instituto de la memoria histórica, www.cubamemorial.net/listado, reports a Francisco Pico, killed at a state security office in Havana August 6, 1962. WAQI-Radio Mambi, p. 63, has a Francisco Pico (Paco Pico) assassinated in 1962.  Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 60, has him assassinated at the G-2 State Security office in Havana on August 6, 1962.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 159; Cuba American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; WAQI-Radio Mambi, p. 63; and Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 60, report him as a victim with alias Paco Pico who had last lived in the province of La Habana, assassinated under arrest at the G2 State Security office in Havana on August 6, 1964. Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of August 6, 2022, reports a Francisco Pico, assassinated on August 6, 1962.

Violation Status: Confirmed with primary source(s)

Cause of Death: - Extrajudicial killing

Occupations: - N/A

External Files: N/A

Relatives in Archive: N/A

Victim Type: - Prisoner / Detainee: Political cause

Affiliations: N/A

Other Victims Same Event: N/A

Case Record - Francisco Noval Méndez