The strike was decreed and commerces and all the worksites closed. A group of the M 26-7 departed in jeep for the town of Manguito (Calimete) for the sake of capturing the ex-captain of the police that had fled in search of refuge. A little detachment ended up in the barracks with the mission of watching it and the collaborators and informers, that at a later time went by courts the revolutionary tribunals stopped.