One of the actions against the Batista tyranny that shook the nation was the Popular Uprising of Cienfuegos on September 5, 1957. The July 26 Movement, together with some Navy officers of the Batista dictatorship, organized this action , where the young Alejandro González Brito participated.
Alejandro González Brito was born in 1919 in Vereda Nueva. His parents were teachers Juan de la Cruz González Figueroa and Brígida Brito González. He studied the career of Pilot of Height in the Naval Academy of Mariel. In 1957, Alejandro occupied an important position in the Naval District of Cienfuegos. As part of his revolutionary activities, he joined a cell of the July 26 Movement in the Merchant Navy. When the armed uprising failed, he remained hidden in the Hotel Roma, where he was discovered and imprisoned.
On September 6, 1957, Alejandro González Brito and others involved in the Cienfuegos uprising were taken to Havana. There, he was interrogated by several minions of the dictatorship, under the supervision of Captain Julio Laurant. Subsequently, he was transferred to the fifth police station where he was beaten savagely. He was in that place until September 13 when he was killed in the Castillo de La Chorrera. From the place where the Almendares river and the Malecón join, the presidential boat that drove the destroyed body of Alejandro González Brito, along with other revolutionaries who participated in the actions of September 5, sailed.
