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Investigating Court of the Fourth Section, where Judge Waldo Bacallo initiated a case in which Julio Laurent was listed as the main defendant in the murder of Agostini. Manuel Antonio Varona Loredo, President of the Authentic Party, assumed the representation of Agostini's widow and acted as prosecutor in the summary. After several months, shortly before concluding the investigation of the case to determined the guilt of Laurent and Heriberto Izquierdo, the magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice abruptly invalidated the civilian capacity to continue hearing the case and transferred it to the military jurisdiction, where it was quickly dismissed.
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and his family until he became aware of the situation outside the residence. As he had done in the previous 1954 raid, he quickly grabbed one of de la Huerta's medical gowns and a doctor's bag where he hid a gun. Agostini leapt over the back wall of de la Huerta's home and entered the back of the nearby Anglo-American Clinic but was surrounded and captured by the
National Police Investigations Bureau.
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Menelao Mora Morales and several significant Navy contacts including Santiago Ríos and Lieutenants Dionisio San Román, Juan M. Castiñeiras, Felipe Vidal and other officers. In May 1955 he had continued to be in hiding and conducting covert activities, now waiting to hear from former President
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Mexican Embassy and arranges to go into exile in Mexico. On 22 August, he then went to the United States, and coordinated with contacts in the US and in Mexico to attempt to join any potential expedition to Cuba, though none materialized. He returned to Miami and
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where he won a silver medal in épée as well as a bronze medal in foil. However, as
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Navarro. At approximately eight o'clock in the evening Pelayo Cuervo Navarro approached de la Huerta's home in his car and saw armed police surrounding the home, causing him to avoid the area and give them notice by phone. Inside the house, Agostini was dinning with de la Huerta
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and go to the Presidential Palace, where he was informed that President Grau decided to suspend the project's execution. Agostini then continued as the Head of the Palace Secret Service although he eventually ceased to perform many of the effective tasks of the position during part of the terms of
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In a morale contribution during the war, the Cuban brigade had its own battle hymn that was titled "Combatientes de la libertad" ("Freedom fighters"); set to music by popular Cuban composer Julio Cuevas Díaz, with its lyrics rewritten by Agostini (then Secretary of the Contingent), to read "We are
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of which he was appointed captain. On 19 February 1941, he was reinstated in the Cuban Navy with his former rank and subsequently appointed professor of artillery at his alma mater, the Mariel naval school, and later as head of the Boca de Mariel post.
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