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.
To the step of the invading column, commanded for Víctor Bordón Machado, he visited places and I name in the Mayor's Office José Alberto Rodríguez Bermúdez like responsible civilian of the municipality. Simultaneously the members of the guerrilla detachment Enrique Hart that were in the Hills of San Miguel of The Bathrooms, when knowing the tyrant's flight, were heading for the aforementioned town to occupy the round of beef where he was given resistance on behalf of the soldiers of tyranny.
The result of the confrontation had like balance Death of the sergeant batistiano José Reguera (alias Matasiete) and wounded persons two members of the Rebellious Army. With this action was becoming converted the town of San Miguel of The Bathrooms the first one in being freed by the Rebellious Army in the Province of Matanzas.
A dominated time the situation, the guerrilla detachment split into two groups to turn to Coliseo's town and the central road on hold for the Columna Antonio Maceo to join her; The other one marched toward Cárdenas and Varadero, where they took a group of guards and soldiers prisoner.
The January 2, 1959, at 11:15 in the morning, spent the commander Camilo Cienfuegos for Jovellanos; Moments later to them 11:50, he comes to Coliseo, after having yielded homage in Audaz in the obelisk that remembers the combat for the forces of the Liberating Army in 1895. From the barracks of the rural guard (poly-clinical today of the town) Placido, to the one that demanded the rendition of the military plaza talks about the regiment.
The January 3, 1959 took effect a meeting in the site of the Lodge Gentlemanly of the Light in the town head, between the direction of the M 26-7 and the so-called actual energies and fraternal institutions where the political situation of the country was analyzed and the same ones gave his support and recognition to the M 26-7 for his preponderant paper in the fight against the tyrannical regimen of Fulgencio Batista.
On January 6, 1959 a multitudinous act came true in to the park José Martí of the town head where the Rebellious Army's captain, William Gálvez and Néstor Sotomayor addressed the audience and where the town gave backup sample to the Revolution.
During morning hours of the day January 7, 1959, the town himself I concentrate in the main street of the locality to receive the Caravan of Freedom. The vehicle in which the maximum leader traveled, stopped in the house number 2417 of the street 11 between 24 and 26. He accompanies it Celia Sánchez Manduley, Teté Puebla and other combat soldiers. According to testimony of John A. Olivera Hernández.
Enter 5 6 in the afternoon Fidel acclaimed by the town, he got on the car's bodywork in which he traveled, and hoarsely and paused filled with emotion, express the gratitude that he felt for the contributions of the town of Jovellanos to the triumph of the Revolution and did the commitment to return, commitment that would come true years later on in occasion of coming true the Bastion 83.

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