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"... my great-uncle Rolando Masferrer.(:) Lawyer. Poet. Journalist. Communist Party member. Spanish Civil War veteran. Expelled Communist Party member. Enemy of [[Fidel Castro]]. Senator. Fighter. That’s him. I’m sure some, including the folks in charge in Havana, have a few other choice ways to describe Rolando. Thief. Gangster. Murderer. ..." <ref>Masferrer, Marc 2006 Rolando Masferrer, the man from Holguín. Uncommon sense Monday, October 30, 2006 http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2006/10/rolando_masferr.html</ref>

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Masferrer, after he was wounded in battle during the [[Spanish Civil War]], became an famous assassin in Spain. It was said that his victims last memories were hearing a lame man following them dragging his feet. After he came back from Spain he made a public break with the Cuban communist party at a meeting at the Soviet Embassy in Havana while talking to [[Ernest Hemingway]]. [[Fabio Grobart]] --[[Joseph Stalin]]'s man in Havana-- tried to get him to rejoin the communist party, but who could trust Grobart, who is widely believed linked to a number of murders of defectors such as [[Julio Antonio Mella]] and left wing rivals such as [[Sandalio Junco]]. Masferrer participated in the "student" action group struggles that destabilized [[Cuba]] in the democratic Autentico Years, on one occasion after Fidel Castro, who then belonged to a different action group,<ref>Ros, Enrique 2003 Fidel Castro y El Gatillo Alegre: Sus A~nos Universitarios (Coleccion Cuba y Sus Jueces) Ediciones Universal Miami ISBN 1593880065</ref> tried to kill him he remarked in words to the effect that he recognized Castro by his rapidly retreating fat posterior. In 1947 he participated in the massive, but frustrated attempt by the [[Caribbean Legion]] to overthrow [[Rafael L. Trujillo]], the Dictator of the [[Dominican Republic]]. After the March 10th 1952 Batista coup, he first thought to fight [[Fulgencio Batista]], then decided to join him. He developed a murderous repressive force "Los Tigres de Masferrer," and yet he was not right wing for his instance his plan to suppress the guerrillas of [[Fidel Castro]] was to buy the huge Sevilla Hacienda in the heights of the [[Sierra Maestra]] mountains and divide up among the local montunos so as to give a base to resist the Castro Forces.

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Masferrer, after he was wounded in battle during the [[Spanish Civil War]], became an famous assassin in Spain.<ref>he real life “Fumero” Rolando Masferrer was wounded twice in Spain, (de la Cova, Antonio Rafael 2007 The Moncada Attack: Birth of the Cuban Revolution. University of South Carolina Press ISBN-10: 1570036721ISBN-13 978-1570036729 Page 287-288) “then having his heel blown away in a mortar attack, leaving him with a permanent limp and the moniker “El Cojo.” </ref> He was brave, ruthless, and corrupt. <ref>To give a measure of Masferrer’s bravery is this report: U.P. 1952 Cuban Congressmen Kills Two Gunmen Wisconsin State Journal. Friday. February 22, 1952 Page 8, Section 4</ref> It was said that his victims last memories were hearing a lame man following them dragging his feet. After he came back from Spain he made a public break with the Cuban communist party at a meeting at the Soviet Embassy in Havana while talking to [[Ernest Hemingway]]. [[Fabio Grobart]] --[[Joseph Stalin]]'s man in Havana-- tried to get him to rejoin the communist party, but who could trust Grobart, who is widely believed linked to a number of murders of defectors such as [[Julio Antonio Mella]] and left wing rivals such as [[Sandalio Junco]]. Masferrer participated in the "student" action group struggles that destabilized [[Cuba]] in the democratic Autentico Years, on one occasion after Fidel Castro, who then belonged to a different action group,<ref>Ros, Enrique 2003 Fidel Castro y El Gatillo Alegre: Sus A~nos Universitarios (Coleccion Cuba y Sus Jueces) Ediciones Universal Miami ISBN 1593880065</ref> tried to kill him he remarked in words to the effect that he recognized Castro by his rapidly retreating fat posterior. In 1947 he participated in the massive, but frustrated attempt by the [[Caribbean Legion]] to overthrow [[Rafael L. Trujillo]], the Dictator of the [[Dominican Republic]]. After the March 10th 1952 Batista coup, he first thought to fight [[Fulgencio Batista]], then decided to join him. He developed a murderous repressive force "Los Tigres de Masferrer," and yet he was not right wing for his instance his plan to suppress the guerrillas of [[Fidel Castro]] was to buy the huge Sevilla Hacienda in the heights of the [[Sierra Maestra]] mountains and divide up among the local montunos so as to give a base to resist the Castro Forces.

After Masferrer fled Cuba in January 1959, he made several attempts to overthrow Castro. These attempts failed because his misdeeds plus virulent pro-Castro propaganda had left him with the most unsavory of reputations. In Halloween 1975 he was blown up in Miami. As usual in these cases it is not known precisely who did it, some say it was disgruntled criminal rivals, although it is common and most logical to blame Castro.<ref>Pardo Llada, Jose (accessed 6-10-08) Radio WRHC November 1975 http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/interviews/Jose-Pardo-Llada-Masferrer-nov-1975.mp3</ref>

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