Juan Pedro Carbó Serviá

Juan Pedro Carbó Servia marks with his life a space of glory in our clandestine revolutionary struggle.

Born in Remedios, he completed primary and secondary education in this city and Caibarién. After graduating as a Bachelor, he enrolled in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of La Habana, which he would later abandon since he had to dedicate himself to caring for his family due to his father's illness and death.

Back in La Habana he worked to support the household and began studying Veterinary Medicine.

His revolutionary activity began during his student years when he confronted the coup d'état. On June 14, 1953 he was detained in Santa Clara for his support of the Campaign for the Oath of the Constitution.

He participated in the conspiracy called "Easter Sunday," he was present when Rubén Batista fell wounded and was one of the students who took to the field of the Cerro Stadium to invite the people to the events for November 27. After this incident he was imprisoned.

Juan Pedro carried out multiple actions, even after completing his studies in 1953, in union with revolutionary leaders Echeverría, Fructuoso and others. He was beaten and imprisoned on several occasions. Together with these two glorious companions he went to Costa Rica to face the Somozist invasion of that country in January 1955.

He was among the first to join the Student Directorate, founded in 1955 at the University and shortly thereafter was one of the signers of the Letter of Mexico.

From that moment on his participation in revolutionary activities increased. Together with José Antonio and Fructuoso he was accused in case 297-55, subsequently he is detained successively on July 7, August 4, September 30, and seriously wounded on December 7, 1955 together with Camilo Cienfuegos when police attacked a student demonstration.

On April 20, 1956 he directs the squad that attacks the program of the halberdier Luis Manuel Martínez which concluded with a gunfight where several students were wounded and student Emilio Camacho was killed.

On October 14, 1956 he accompanies José Antonio, Fructuoso and other leaders of the Revolutionary Directorate to the second meeting with Fidel in Mexico. On October 28, 1956 he directs the squad that executes the chief of the SIM at the Montmartre Cabaret. After the attack on Blanco Rico the police search for him tirelessly and put a price on his head.

He was within the group of young men who assaulted the Palace on March 13, 1957. There wounded in a foot, without the eyeglasses that he greatly needed and with his face burned by shrapnel, he continued fighting until the retreat was ordered.

Life, after that heroic action, became increasingly difficult and dangerous. Escaped from the Emergency Hospital where he was treated for wounds sustained in the assault on the Palace, the following weeks were of great tension and distress.

Located at the house on Humboldt Street 7 together with Machadito, Fructuoso and Joe Westbrook, the betrayal of a traitor who visited them in the morning hours brought the Batistian repressive forces there.

The four young men, without means to defend themselves effectively or to escape, were brutally murdered on April 20, 1957.