The fierce dictatorship established in Cuba, following the coup d'état perpetrated by Fulgencio Batista and sharpened by the start of the war of national liberation, four years later, broke the lives of several children of San Antonio de los Baños.
José María Pérez Capote, was born on September 29, 1911. He was a member of the Communist Youth League and the Communist Party, as well as a union leader and combatant against the tyranny of Machado and Batista. He founded the first National Union of Passenger Transport, becoming Secretary General of the Federation of Workers in the province of Havana. Together with Lázaro Peña, he founded the Confederation of Workers of Cuba and was elected Representative to the House by the Popular Socialist Party. Pérez Capote was kidnapped and murdered by Batista's henchmen on November 20, 1957.
Jesús Rodríguez Reinoso, was born on January 19, 1937, in the bosom of a working family with scarce economic resources. The lack of employment in his hometown forced his parents to move to different locations in the country. In Alquízar, when she was only eight years old, she sold fruits on the street to help support the household. Thus ten years of their painful existence passed, until they settled definitively in La Víbora.
In that capital city neighborhood, he began his open confrontation with the tyranny of Batista. He participated in numerous revolutionary actions, as part of the July 26 Movement. Arrested by the henchmen of the bloodthirsty Estaban Ventura, he was tortured for more than a month; his body appeared in San Miguel del Padrón, on December 31, 1958.
