March, 2025.- On March 18, 1958, the revolutionary Sergio González López, who was known among his comrades as «El Curita», died under torture; a member of a family of catholic vocation, as a young man he enrolled in the seminary, but his rebellious temperament did not fit with the priesthood, so he abandoned the classrooms and dedicated himself to the struggle for the welfare of his people.
Sergio began to work in 1945 in Havana during the government of Ramón Grau San Martín when Cuba was going through a process of intensification of the class struggle and in that stage he highlighted his rebellious spirit participating in the actions together with his comrades, of whom he gained all the confidence thanks to his vertical position against the exploitation of the workers, and for that reason, the masses always supported him and elected him as a union leader.
He was a member of the 26th of July Revolutionary Movement and occupied leadership positions in the capital of the country, and in correspondence with that responsibility he gathered around him numerous comrades, divided into groups specialized in sabotage, and he had several executive assistants in charge of transmitting the orientations, since he ensured that the compartmentalization of leaders, houses and functions was rigorously complied with.
Due to his courage, he became head of Action and Sabotage of the 26th of July Movement in Havana; he organized and directed the Night of the Hundred Bombs (November 8, 1957), and among the actions he led was the attack on the fuel tanks of the Esso Standard Oil refinery in the United States, which was very well known at the time.
Dedicated to fight Batista’s tyranny, in the early morning of March 19, 1958, his corpse appeared in a lonely street of the Altahabana neighborhood, together with those of Bernardino García Santos (Motica) and Bernardo Juan Borrell, his fellow fighters; it was known by one of his victimizers that when they took him out of the car in bad condition and before the imminence of his end, he opened his bloody shirt and challenged them: Shoot, shoot, there’s a man here!
