Girón was also a victory for the people from Santa Cruz del Sur

Santa Cruz del Sur, Mar 29. –Santa Cruz born José del Risco Guerra cuts to the chase and goes to the anecdotes he embeds since Playa Girón Invasion“¡ Listen carefully, I have not forgotten anything! All the ones who were here in front of that retaining wall, with the canons ready to fire, will always have that seed sowed into the brain”.

He was member of the milicia battalion lead by the captain Otto Muller. “We received a good military training and patrolled the entire coast with our own fishing boats”.

“There was a weapon per man. Men set trenches with bags of sand and a ditch was open all along the wall, it filled with water, but every body remained in position. No one panicked. The revolutionary conscience was so high. If those bastards would have changed course so that they entered the island through Santa Cruz del Sur, you can be sure that there was going to be a mess around here. We would have defeated them as it happened in Girón”.

“We used to have a huge battalion of fishermen”, del Risco Guerra pointed out. “This, my friend, was something beautiful, and we have so done many things to help this revolution. And to know by mans of Fidel himself that the mercenaries were defeated by the militia-men in less than 72 hours was like a victory of ourselves, the people from Santa Cruz del Sur.