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Virgilio "Villo" R. González (May 18, 1926 – July 16, 2014) was a Cuban-born political activist, locksmith, and one of the five men arrested at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972.
Eugenio Rolando Martínez Careaga [1] (alias Musculito, July 8, 1922 – January 30, 2021) was a member of the anti-Castro movement in the early 1960s, and later was one of the five men recruited by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in 1972 for the Memorial Day weekend Watergate burglary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C.
In 1959, Sturgis had contact with casinos in Cuba and some say met Lewis McWillie, mobster Traficante's man in Cuba, and the manager of the Tropicana Casino who by his own testimony [12] was a known acquaintance of Jack Ruby. [13] Sturgis met up with Castro and his 400 rebels in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Sturgis offered to train Castro's ...
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McCord and four other accomplices were arrested during the second break-in to the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The arrests led to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation. McCord asserted that the White House knew of and approved the break ins, and proceeded to cover up the incident.
Five years ago, a reputed Miami gang member named David Paneque finished a decade-long prison sentence for stabbing a man during a robbery. He was ordered deported to his native Cuba, but the ...
The indicted and arrested “secret agent” for Communist Party-ruled Cuba lived, according to public records, on the 17th floor of a posh Brickell Avenue condo tower across the street from ...
Barker was born in Havana, to a Russian American father of Jewish descent [1] and a Cuban mother. Therefore, Barker was a dual citizen of Cuba and the United States. [2] At the age of 16, Barker joined the ABC, a revolutionary group opposed to then president Gerardo Machado y Morales. It was during this period that he acquired the nickname "Macho".