Cuba Archive - Case 2987

Case ID: 2987

Title: Capitán

First name: Bernardo

Last name: Corrales

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: N/A

Age: N/A

Gender: N/A

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:16 / Month:9 / Year:1961

Citizenship: N/A

Last known address: N/A

Last known city: Mantua

Last known province-TOD: Pinar del Río

Last known province current: Pinar del Río

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: N/A

Location of death - city: Pinar del Río

Location of death province - at TOD: Pinar del Río

Location of death province - current: Pinar del Río

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: Yes

Docket Number: 102 of 1961

Sentence details: N/A

Arrest or detention at time of death: N/A

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:

L. Ruiz, Diario de una traición 1961, pp. 163 and 165, reports the victim executed by firing squad on 09/18/1961.  Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 20; Nuestra Cuba, 1988, p. 11; and WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 11, report the victim executed by firing squad at Loma de los Coches, Pinar del Río on 01/24/1961.  Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 20; and Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 75, report the victim executed by firing squad in the city of Pinar del Río on 09/18/1961.  Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana, 2002, p. 12, reports the victim executed by firing squad after being wounded in combat on 09/15/1961.  Conte Aguero, 1962, p. 54, reports the victim executed by firing squad on 09/16/1961.  Clarinada, septiembre 2008, reports the victim executed by firing squad in Pinar del Río on September 18, 1961.  Some sources list last known address as Guane, Pinar del Río.  E. Ros, El clandestinaje, 2006, p. 309, reports the victim as a former Rebel Army captain and insurgent in Sierra de los Organos, who eluded capture and escaped to Havana, where he was found by Lieutenant Marcelo, who shot him; two months later, he was judged in the Audiencia of Pinar del Río and executed by firing squad on September 15, 1962.

Violation Status: Confirmed with primary source(s)

Cause of Death: - Execution: by firing squad

Occupations: - N/A

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 1616: Francisco René Suárez Pérez

Case Record - Bernardo Corrales