So I did some more digging and the UPI photographer who took the picture was Andrew Lopez and the person executed was named as José "Pepe Caliente" Cipriano Rodriguez. Pretty sure whatever inflated charge given by the CASTRO regime is irrelevant and this corporal could have just been defending his land etc. CASTRO's regime and CHE (HERO OF THE LEFT) MURDERED many thousands of CUBANS!! NOTE that the common nickname for JOSÉ in Spanish is PEPE. 🐸

UPI CAPTION of the event: "Father Domingo Lorenzo performs last rites for Cuban Army Cpl. José Cipriano Rodriguez on Jan. 17, 1959. Rodriguez, who had served in Fulgencio Batista's army, was executed by firing squad after being found guilty for the deaths of two brothers. His tribunal lasted just one minute. UPI photographer Andrew Lopez won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for a series of four photos from the scene, including this one."

So I did some more digging and the UPI photographer who took the picture was Andrew Lopez and the person executed was named as José "Pepe" Cipriano Rodriguez. Pretty sure whatever inflated charge given by the CASTRO regime is irrelevant and this corporal could have just been defending his land etc. CASTRO's regime and CHE (HERO OF THE LEFT) MURDERED many thousands of CUBANS!! NOTE that the common nickname for JOSÉ in Spanish is PEPE. 🐸

UPI CAPTION of the event: "Father Domingo Lorenzo performs last rites for Cuban Army Cpl. José Cipriano Rodriguez on Jan. 17, 1959. Rodriguez, who had served in Fulgencio Batista's army, was executed by firing squad after being found guilty for the deaths of two brothers. His tribunal lasted just one minute. UPI photographer Andrew Lopez won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for a series of four photos from the scene, including this one."