Cuba: 148 years ago Cuba lived a sad day. The shooting of eight medical students shocked a society marked by the beginning of the Mambises’ wars, Spanish despotism and the increasingly solid awareness of how much Cuban patriotism means as well as fighting for a free country, Cubadebate publishes.

In the midst of this panorama, the death of the young people meant the definitive proof of the brutality of a regime with almost four centuries of oppression on the Island.

Those who witnessed the event remember how the students were killed two by two, with their hands tied, kneeling and with their backs to the firing squad. After a process plagued by irregularities, just three hours passed from the sentence to the final moment. None of them were over 21 years old.

Since then, different stories are woven around that November 27. Both the best known and those that still need research come together to build this painful page. And among them, that of five dead blacks that day almost next to the students is the most mythical.

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