Cuba Archive - Case 1273

Case ID: 1273

Title: N/A

First name: Arnaldo

Last name: Jiménez Pérez

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: Arnaldo Jiménez Jiménez, Arnaldo Jiménez, Erinaldo Jiménez Pérez, Erino Jiménez Pérez

Age: N/A

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:15 / Month:6 / Year:1960

Citizenship: Cuba

Last known address: N/A

Last known city: Santiago de Cuba

Last known province-TOD: Oriente

Last known province current: Santiago de Cuba

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: Boniato Prison

Location of death - city: Santiago de Cuba

Location of death province - at TOD: Oriente

Location of death province - current: Santiago de Cuba

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: Boniato prison, Santiago de Cuba

How long imprisoned/detained: N/A

Death attributed to: Castro regime

Death attribution detail: N/A

Associated Event: N/A

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Ruíz, 1972, p. 129, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez executed by firing squad on 07/17/1961. Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 46, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez executed by firing squad in Santiago de Cuba in July 1959.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 132, and WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 8, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Jiménez executed in Santiago on Jan. 13, 1959. Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994, reports Arnaldo Jiménez Jiménez assassinated in prison Jan. 13, 1959. Beruvides, 1993, p. 132; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994 report an Ruíz, 1972, p. 129, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez executed by firing squad in Santiago December 11, 1959.   Nuestra Cuba, 1999, p. 46; and Beruvides, 1993, p. 132, report  an Arnaldo Jiménez victim executed by firing squad in 1960.  Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, 1965, p. 25, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez executed at Boniato prison, Santiago de Cuba, on January 24, 1964. Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; and United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1961, report an Erinaldo Jiménez Pérez, former officer in the Cuban Rebel Navy and anti-Castro insurgent and leader of a band of forty guerrillas, executed by firing squad in 1961 at Finca El Guajacal, Imias, Guantánamo. Beruvides, 1993, p. 132, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez executed in Guantánamo on November 12, 1962.  Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez assassinated in prison. WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 96, reports an Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez executed by firing squad at Boniato prison, Santiago de Cuba, Oriente province. Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of March 27, 2022. reports an Erino Jiménez Pérez murdered by Captain Francisco "Pancho" Gonzalez on March 27, 1961, when, after fighting for an hour, he surrendered for lack of ammunition.

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

Cause of Death: - Execution: by firing squad

Occupations: - Protective Service 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: - Case 1577: Cipriano Beatón Martínez - Case 1578: Manuel Beatón Martínez - Case 1580: Felipe Martínez Norman

Case Record - Arnaldo Jiménez Pérez