Tia Margy's stories (RIP 1942-2018)

(Gaston Family in Cuba...1948 ?) (Margy collecting bandages and medicine for the Bay of Pigs invasion) And then the third one, see, we weren't sure that the invasion (Bay of Pigs) was going to happen, and we knew that, remember the Cuban Underground was going to Rise, too, so we knew that if we had wounded people, we could not take them to the hospital.  So i was asked to to to different people that i thought were against Castro and ask them if we could use one of their houses.  If they said yes, tell them was was needed.  I mean there was a list, you know tell them what was needed.  I man have all linen, i you didn't want people to start collecting emergency stuff because again.... (interviewer: That would be a signal) Right. But things like wash or blankets that can be used for bandage, start getting aspirin and penicillin.  You know, water, there was a list of about 10 things. You know, and buy all in small quantities in different places, and store i

(Tia Margy is Front and Center on Railing where she belongs !!  Gaston Family Reunion Miami 2014) (Margarita Suarez-Gaston describing her activities against Castro in Havana....from a Taped interview in 1999 in the USA) The Phone Calls (1960-61) Margy's age 18 or 17 (she was 5th "in-line" Lourdes, George, Teresa, Lala...Lourdes and George were already out of the Country at a Convent and Seminary) "The other one, the one that almost made me die, was also the idea of making phone calls.... and alerting people to an article in the newspaper, or something that had just happened. And so, you only have a few seconds because the telephone company was already....belonged to Castro (the govt). Not only that, when you make a long distance phone call, many times, the telephones would say, "Viva Fidel Castro !! Viva La Revolucion !!" So, and, we were asked, you were given the idea of...look in the phone book, I mean, don't carry it with