Yousel Pérez Tacoronte dead at age 11

Child Victims

    Yausel E. Pérez Tacoronte(11)
    Mayulis Méndez Tacoronte(17)
    Caridad Leyva Tacoronte(4)
    Yaser Perodín Almanza(11) 
    Helen M. Enríquez(6 months)
    Juan M. Gutiérrez García(10)
    Yisel Borges Alvarez(4) 
    José Carlos Nicole Anaya(3)
    Angel René Abreu Ruiz(3)
    Cindy Rodríguez Fernández(2) 
    Midalis Sanabria Cabrera(19)
    Eliecer Suárez Plasencia(11) 
    and others not identified. 
     

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They Will Not Be Forgotten

"The pleas of the women and children on the deck of the tug '13 de Marzo' did nothing to stop the attack. The boat sank, with a toll of 41 dead. Many people perished because the jets of water directed at everyone on deck forced them to seek refuge in the engine room. The survivors also affirmed that the crews of the four Cuban government boats were dressed in civilian clothes and that they did not help them when they were sinking." - (from the Official OAS Report)

Angel René Abreu Ruiz dead at 3

Angel would have been 7 years old this year, but on July 13, 1994 the agents of the Cuban government took his life and the lives of 41 others.

Testimony of Jeanette Hernández Gutierrez

I told them that they were murderers, that they did not take pity on children, that here (in this country) they say that children, old people have a lot of privileges, but they even let old people die, and many children-- almost twenty-three children died--.

This is something, the people were outraged, people were desperate to get news--some thing--to know about those bodies trapped there in the hold. Roberto Robaina said that we knew that the boat was damaged when we left the port. Do you think that we would risk the lives of women and children with a damaged boat, knowing that there was such a long way to go?

Then they say that the boat was one of the port's relics, that it was from the Second World War. It's true, it was very old, it was made of wood, but it had just been repaired; even when I went to Villa Marista, to take clean clothes to my husband and my brother-in-law, while I was there I asked them why did the newspaper say that the boat capsized, sank, that it was negligence on our parts? I told them it wasn't so. They got angry and they all called me a counterrevolutionary, and I accepted it... But I asked them in Villa Marista, what about the people who sunk us, the ones who murdered us, our sons, our relatives? Because there are children who lost their mothers, my nephew, for example...