Antonio Díaz Torres was one of seven young people from Ariguanabo massacred on August 11, 1931 at the El Corojal estate, located between Artemisa and Candelaria. He died during a maneuver of the Machado dictatorship, led by the lieutenant of the Rural Guard, Enrique Diez Díaz, who unleashed a hunt and killed them mercilessly.
During the attempt to destroy the bloodthirsty regime of Gerardo Machado to banish him from Cuba, the other children of San Antonio de los Baños (Eladio Contreras Díaz, José Fernández Llanes, Cornelio Fleitas, Raúl Pino Morales, Porfirio Licitas Fiallo and Rafael Pérez Rodríguez) died in El Corojal.
The leader of the Nationalist Union, Julio Pérez Rodríguez, the only survivor, escaped wounded to Havana and was jailed there. Meanwhile, Commander Domingo Lence Novo would be surprised by the National Army in a place named Hoyo de Bonifacio, where he was seriously injured and shot off. Machado's soldiers, still dissatisfied, tried to cut off his face, but the military Álvaro Lama prevented them from desecrating his Master's body.
The crimes against the 43 revolutionaries who on that occasion rose in arms against the government of Gerardo Machado, continued until August 14 of that year, and finally left about twenty victims, all from the municipalities of San Antonio de los Baños, Alquízar and Güira de Melena, territories of the current province of Artemisa.