1908.  Niceto Pérez García is born in the town of Güira de Melena.

When he was 12 years old he moved with his relatives to a rural area of Guantánamo, in the eastern part of the Cuban territory. There, at a young age, he began to work in agriculture and animal husbandry. His family suffered, like other peasants of that time, hard hardships in the search for a livelihood. On April 24, 1944, the Peasant Federation of the East denounced to the Minister of Agriculture a new threat of eviction against the 128 peasant families in the area. Niceto, an active member of the Peasant Association and fierce opponent of all kinds of abuses, once again fought against the outrage against the rural inhabitants, who kept their plots of land.

On May 17, 1946 the rural guards went to look for Niceto, who was working on his small farm in the company of two of his sons. There, one of the soldiers shot him and killed him.

Years later, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on May 17, the Agrarian Reform Law was signed in La Plata, a community in the Sierra Maestra.

1958. Young revolutionaries Elpidio Aguilar and Aristides Viera (Mingolo) fall in an unequal confrontation with agents of the Batista dictatorial regime in the Miramar area of Havana.

They were traveling in a car together with two other revolutionary fighters.

At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, in Miramar, Aristides was recognized by the members of a patrol car.  When they ordered him to stop, Aristides ordered the driver to speed up while he began to shoot.

But the car in which he was traveling, the tires punctured by the police bullets, lost direction and was projected against the wall of a house.

The revolutionary fighters jumped out of the vehicle and fought a gun battle with their pursuers.