Enrique Hart Dávalos

He was born in La Habana. He completed his primary studies in the City of Matanzas and finished his high school education at the Instituto de Santiago de Cuba. He entered the Universidad de la Habana to pursue studies in Commercial Sciences.

He was a cheerful, restless, and happy young man. One of Enrique's most distinctive characteristics was the dynamism with which he always faced the tasks assigned to him. He had a nervous temperament and at the same time remained calm in the face of danger. Faced with any situation, no matter how difficult, he showed cheerfulness. He was a revolutionary of boundless audacity. These qualities allowed him to stand out as a companion of great maturity.

He was a bank employee. As a worker, he was part of the revolutionary vanguard.

From a young age he felt a deep contempt for pseudo-revolutionary positions and the rampant politicking in Cuba at that time, also expressing his anti-American stance. The reactionary military coup of March 10, 1952, was an event that caused a circumstantial change in his life. From then on, he was among those who joined the struggle to recover the curtailed freedoms and against the gang of traitors headed by Batista.

He was soon seen in the actions of revolutionary students, in the strikes and struggles of bank workers for their demands. His fraternal character quickly earned him the affection and respect of his coworkers, which was combined with his readiness to relate to the most humble sectors of the population.

He matured over time, which led him to quickly join the tasks of the Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio in La Habana in 1957. Due to the intensity of his struggles and the responsibility shown in the fulfillment of each task assigned to him, he immediately occupied numerous positions of responsibility in La Habana, where he became chief of action and sabotage and later in the City of Matanzas.

He was part of the events of the Assault on Cuartel Moncada, rescuing a wounded assailant in the days following.

He participated in different actions in Havana until he is arrested in the town of Jamaica. Enrique took part in the hunger strike decreed by political prisoners in response to the abuses committed by the military chief of Isla de Pinos.

He joined the movement in Matanzas starting in February 1958. In this region Yumurina was the chief of action of the movement and there he organized, participated in, and directed numerous insurrectional activities, in the hills and on the plains.

He participated in the strike of April 9 in the takeover of the provincial radio station, launching an appeal to the population to join the stoppage.
He participated in the bank strike of September 1955, an attitude he maintained even in the prison he suffered after those events.

On April 21, 1958, in Versalles, City of Matanzas, when the mechanism of a bomb failed, the revolutionary chief died, and alongside him fell fellow fighters Juan Alberto Morales Bayona and Carlos García.

Fidel Castro Ruz described Enrique Hart Dávalos as one of the most intrepid and audacious men of action in the clandestine movement. In a letter from Faustino Pérez, from the Sierra Maestra, addressed to Armando Hart in Isla de Pinos, he informs him of the valuable revolutionaries who had fallen; regarding Enrique he says:

"To fill the cup, your brother, our brother; that being full of vitality always kept the string of action taut. In him there could be nothing static. He was like nitric acid to test pure gold and reject the false."

Armando Hart Dávalos expressed at his death:
"He died fighting to develop popular insurrection with a profound hatred toward the bourgeois social-political environment, with a clear anti-imperialist sentiment and with the firm conviction that this was the revolution of workers and the exploited"