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Boca de Sama Attack

Back in the day on October 12th, 1971, the small Cuban fishing village of Boca de Sama in the Eastern part of the island was attacked by boat. Gustavo Villoldo, a Cuban exile and CIA agent at the time, recently spoke of his role in the operation in a feature story published by the Miami New Times. Villoldo, driven by revenge, claimed that an old CIA contact met with him back in 1971 regarding an armed attempt to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. The attack and invasion of Boca de Sama was to be a test run for a larger operation. On the morning of October 12th, Villoldo and his men assembled and sailed from Key Biscayne, Florida to raid the Cuban fishing village upon arrival. Castro, in a speech after the attack, likened it to a ‘pirate raid’ and declared that, “the responsibility for these cowardly and bloody incidents falls on the U.S. government and its confederates.”

Two Cubans were killed in the machine gunning of Boca de Sama and two teenage girls were also wounded with one needing to amputate her leg.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history