Cuba Archive - Case 3836

Case ID: 3836

Title: N/A

First name: Guillermo

Last name: Reyes Viada

Suffix: N/A

Aliases: N/A

Name also reported as: Guillermo Rey Viada, Guillermo Rey

Age: N/A

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: N/A

Civil Status: Unknown

Date of death/disappearance: Day:19 / Month:9 / Year:1962

Citizenship: N/A

Last known address: N/A

Last known city: N/A

Last known province-TOD: La Habana

Last known province current: N/A

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: 407 of 1962

Sentence details: Capital punishment

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: 1962 August 30th (Sta. Rosa) Conspiracy

Case description: Sources: Conflict of Evidence:

Nuestra Cuba, 1998, p. 33, also has him executed by firing squad at La Cabaña Fortress prison on April 22, 1962.  United States Information Agency, 1993, Year 1964; and Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro`s Genocide, 1994, report the victim as Guillermo Rey Viada, a twenty-four-year-old prisoner executed by firing squad on charges of sabotage and burning of sugarcen fields, at Isla de Pinos prison, province of La Habana (now Isla de la Juventud), in 1964.  Beruvides, 1993, p. 164; Cuban American National Foundation, Quilt of Fidel Castro's Genocide, 1994; and Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana contra el Totalitarismo, 2002, p. 17, report the victim as Guillermo Rey, disappeared on September 19, 1962.  Instituto de la Memoria Histórica Cubana contra el Totalitarismo, 2002, p. 17, has him executed by firing squad at La Cabaña Fortress prison in Havana as a Santa Rosa de Lima conspirator.  Clarinada, septiembre 2008, reports the victim executed by firing squad along with six others in connection with the August 30 uprising, at La Cabaña Fortress prison, Havana, on September 19, 1962. Un día como hoy, Comité Internacional de ex-Presos Políticos Cubanos, e-mail of April 22, 2022, reports him executed on April 22, 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: - Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria Cubana

Other Victims Same Event: - Case 3843: Jesús Lazo Otaño - Case 1980: Otto Rodríguez Díaz - Case 3567: Félix Nicerany Reyes - Case 1208: Ebelio Hernández Horta

Case Record - Guillermo Reyes Viada