Celebrating Students Killed at the Hands of the Spanish Government

Eight young victims of unfair accusationOn November 27, 1871, eight first-year students of the Havana Medical University were shot by order of the government in Havana. Anacleto Bermudez González, Alonso Alvarez, Pascual Rodríguez Pérez, Carlos Augusto de Latorre, Angel Laborde, Carlos Verdugo, Eladio González Toledo, and José de Marcos Medina – all of Cuba knows their names.

On the island of freedom, young people are celebrated as having died for the cause of revolution.
They were accused of desecrating the grave of a senior Spanish official, Gonzalo Castañón. Ten years after the tragic verdict, the charges were proven wrong. The students were acquitted posthumously.