Cuba Archive - Case 3774

Case ID: 3774

Title: N/A

First name: Filiberto

Last name: Coto Gómez

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: El Pipero , Pepiro

Name also reported as: Filiberto Copto, Filiberto González Coto, Filiberto Coto, Gilberto Coto Gómez, Filiberto Cato, Alberto Couto

Age: 35

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:31 / Month:8 / Year:1962

Citizenship: N/A

Last known address: N/A

Last known city: Guanabacoa

Last known province-TOD: La Habana

Last known province current: Ciudad de La Habana

Last known country: Cuba

Location death-address: La Cabaña Fortress prison

Location of death - city: Havana

Location of death province - at TOD: La Habana

Location of death province - current: Ciudad de La Habana

Location of death - country: Cuba

Trial held?: Yes

Docket Number: 372 of 1962

Sentence details: N/A

Arrest or detention at time of death: Yes

Date of arrest: N/A

Imprisoned/Detained: Location: La Cabaña Fortress prison

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:

Testimony of comrade in arms, reports him executed on 8/29/1962. Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana, 2002, p. 17, reports him executed in Güines, Havana province on 08/31/1962. Encinosa, 1989, pp. 78-79 and 142, reports him executed in 1963. Beruvides, 1993, p. 104, reports him assassinated. Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, 1965, p. 18, reports him executed in Güines, Havana province. Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 68; and WAQI-Radio Mambí, p. 69, report him executed at Finca El Pipero, Matanzas, on 08/31/1962. Gómez Estrada, 1990, p. 157, reports him executed in August 1963.  Circuito Sur, July 2002, p. 21, reports him executed at San Severino Castle prison in Matanzas in August 1962.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 105; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt, 1994, report him as Gilberto Coto Gómez, executed on 8/30/1962.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 102; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994, report a Filiberto Cato, executed at La Cabaña on 8/9/1963.  E. Ros, El clandestinaje, 2006, p. 297, reports the victim as Filiberto Coto, one of five anti-Castro insurgents operating for two years in Matanzas, executed by firing squad on August 30, 1962.  United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1964, reports the victim as Alberto Couto, alias Pepiro, a forty-five-year-old anti-Castro guerrilla rebel last living in Güines, province of La Habana and operating in the area of Madruga, province of La Habana, executed by firing squad at La Cabaña Fortress Prison, Havana, in 1964.

Violation Status: Confirmed with primary source(s)

Cause of Death: - Execution: by firing squad

Occupations: - Transportation and Material Moving 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: N/A

Case Record - Filiberto Coto Gómez