(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 it in different places in your houses. The danger of that is that if you approach someone that was Pro-Castro, bye-bye, you know.
Well, i went to friends of my family, you know, and people that i knew either from my father or friends, parents of my kids in my high school. so I knew, it was clear who was against Castro.
So, i went to several homes. And i remember I went to three or four, and then on the fifth one, the father of the friend of mine said, "Don't do this !!" He said, "Word's around, people know it." And he said, "This is too dangerous for You, and too dangerous for the people that you are asking."
And he said, you know, "Enough people know. When it happens...." Apparently he was involved in another level. And again, maybe there was some kind of confusion with the Underground about who should be doing what.
But i stopped doing that one. You know, he was the last one that i went to.
(My fathers Manuel Antonio Suarez-Carreno with his brothers...Luis, Dad, Don Patricio Suarez, Ignacio (die in jail as a political prisoner) and Patrick
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