Aldo Vera Serafin

Aldo Vera Serafin
Aldo Vera (third from the right), Armando Hart (second from the right) in Columbia in January 1959.
Bornc. 1933
La Habana, Cuba
DiedOctober 26, 1976 (aged 43)
San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
Cause of death
Gunshot wounds
Known forVictim of unsolved homicide

Aldo Vera Serafin (c. 1933 – October 26, 1976)[1] was a Cuban exile[2] who was once a top police official for Prime Minister Fidel Castro. He later split with Castro.

Background

In 1958 he joined Castro's 26th of July Movement, engaging in sabotage work in Havana.[3] In January 1959, he was named head of the technical investigations department, the main intelligence organ of the Cuban police. Vera became disenchanted with communism and fled Cuba in 1961. He formed the Movimiento Acciόn Patriόtica, which received financial backing from the mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr.[4]

On October 26, 1976, Vera was hit with two shots fired from an automobile in a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico,[5] as he was stepping out of a bakery on the way to a meeting with members of an anti-Castro political group. Serafin died almost immediately.[3] His death has never officially been solved.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gutset. "The Cuban Assassination That Could Kill Obama's Detente Deal |". Archived from the original on 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  2. ↑ Gutset. "Aldo Vera |". Archived from the original on 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  3. 1 2 "Former High Cuban Aide Who Broke With Castro Shot to Death in San Juan". The New York Times. 1976-10-27. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  4. ↑ Colhoun, Jack (2013). Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba, and the Mafia 1933-1966. OR Books. p. 221.
  5. ↑ "Aldo Vera Serafin". www.latinamericanstudies.org. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
  6. ↑ Kryt, Jeremy (26 October 2015). "The Cuban Assassination That Could Kill Obama's Detente Deal". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
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