Cuba Archive - Case 3006

Case ID: 3006

Title: N/A

First name: Adalberto

Last name: González Garnica

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: Edelberto González Guernica, Idelberto González Garnica, Edelberto González Guernica, Ángel Alberto González Garnica, Ángel B. González Garriga, Alberto González Ramos

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:4 / Month:1 / Year:1962

Citizenship: N/A

Last known address: Las Medidas

Last known city: Santiago de Cartagena

Last known province-TOD: Las Villas

Last known province current: Cienfuegos

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: N/A

Location of death - city: Santa Clara

Location of death province - at TOD: Las Villas

Location of death province - current: Villa Clara

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: N/A

Docket Number: N/A

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 - Escambray uprising

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Gómez-Estrada, 1990, p. 236, reports the victim executed by firing squad at Finca Santa Elena, Las Villas province. United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1961; Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, 1965, p. 22; and WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 97 report him executed December 15, 1961 in Santa Clara.  Encinosa, 1989, p. 146; Beruvides, 1993, p. 121; Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, 1965, p. 22; WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 12; Encinosa, 1994, p. 105; Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 12; and Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 37 and 38, all report him as an Escambray guerrilla band leader executed by firing squad in Rodas, Las Villas on Jan. 28, 1962. Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994, reports an Alberto González Machín, anti-Castro insurgent, killed in combat in 1961 at the Escambray Mountains, Las Villas. Beruvides, 1993, p. 122; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994, report an Alberto González Mateo, from Cárdenas, Matanzas,  Anti-Castro insurgent killed in combat in 1965. Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994. WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 78. Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 77. Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 39; all report an Alberto González Ramos executed September 28, 1968 in Camagüey. Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of Jan. 28, 2022 reports him executed on Jan. 28, 1962.

Violation Status: Reported: Highly likely / Highly reliable 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 2705: Rafael Varas Viamonte - Case 3456: Rafael Rosales Sosa - Case 1967: Luis Portela López - Case 2431: Eugenio Monteagudo Boyd - Case 3998: Mario Otero Viamonte - Case 72: Eliecer Delgado Delgado

Case Record - Adalberto González Garnica