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Rolando Masferrer was born on 1918 in United States, is a Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Rojas better known simply as Rolando Masferrer. Discover Rolando Masferrer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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1918

Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Rojas (1918 – 1975), better known simply as Rolando Masferrer, was a Cuban henchman, lawyer, congressman, newspaper publisher and a political activist.

Joining the leftist revoluationary movement as a teenager, he fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

Masferrer was born on 12 July 1918, in Holguín, former Oriente Province, Cuba.

He married Lucila Montero and they had two children: Alejandro (Alex) and Liudmila.

Rolando had two brothers: Rodolfo and Raimundo.

1935

He was a member of Cuba's Communist Party (Popular Socialist Party) from 1935, but was expelled in 1945, and later became anti-communist.

1936

He participated in a murder plot against Colonel Jose Eleuterio Pedraza, head of Cuban National Police in 1936, and he was arrested.

1937

He formed part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in 1937.

He was wounded in the left foot in Spain, and in Europe is said to have been an enforcer for the International Brigades, much feared for the thumping of his wounded gait when he approached his victim.

He was lame for the rest of his life.

1939

He was assistant editor of Hoy (Today), the Cuban communist daily between 1939-45.

Later he published a socialist weekly called Tiempo en Cuba (Time in Cuba).

1945

He graduated as a lawyer from the University of Havana with honors (Dolz Award) in 1945.

1946

He was fluent in English, and appointed as an English teacher at Marianao High School in 1946.

He was founder and leader of the Movimiento Socialista Revolucionario (MSR), that became a gang.

1947

Masferrer participated, with Fidel Castro and over 1,000 Cubans, in the aborted Cayo Confites expedition of 1947, which sought to overthrow Rafael Trujillo, the authoritarian leader of the Dominican Republic.

1948

Masferrer was elected to the Congress of Cuba for the Republican Party in 1948, and later became a supporter of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Masferrer created a guerrilla known as "Tigres de Masferrer", which was intended to fight against M-26-7.

He fled to the US when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba.

From there he plotted assassination and invasion attempts against Castro, all of which failed.

He was a rival of Castro in the bloody feuds of the trigger happy action groups in Havana and subject of one failed attempt by Castro and others to kill to him in 1948.

Masferrer was elected to the Cuban House of Representatives for the Republican Party in 1948.

1952

Masferrer was a staunch supporter of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista after the latter seized power in 1952.

1954

He was a Senator for the Partido Auténtico (1954-1958) in the Batista government and the leading founder of Los Tigres de Masferrer, a paramilitary organization set up to protect Batista from guerrilla groups and support Batista militarily.

In this period he published two papers Tiempo in Havana and Libertad in Santiago de Cuba which insulted Francisco Franco, but without positive reaction among other leftwing Spanish Civil war exiles.

1958

During the final years of the last Batista regime to the end of 1958, Masferrer and his Tigres operated in Oriente province; from headquarters in Victoria de las Tunas, or others claim from Santiago, Manzanillo and Bayamo He had an array of weapons including lethal large caliber "air rifles."

His followers penetrated the Sierra Maestra with silence, terrifying local Escopeteros, who without time to react or appropriate weapons, fled before his forces; then the "tigres" fled.

In this fashion the Tigres raided and killed in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra.

He is known to have threatened Franciscan priests in Manzanillo, Cuba The Cuban government of Fidel Castro accused Masferrer of 2,000 killings - disputed by some - and said the Tigres were careful to remove all evidence.

Masferrer plotted to buy "La Hacienda Sevilla" and divide up the land so as to reward the local guajiros for informing on Fidel Castro in the first months of his operations in the Sierra Maestra.

This connection may or may not explain the attempted betrayal of Castro by Agrarian Organizer Eutimio Guerra.

1959

All emigrated to the U.S. with Rolando on January 1, 1959.

Masferrer was a member of the leftist revolutionary Joven Cuba organization as a teenager.

Despite the fact that Masferrer had been a Communist supporter, after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba on January 1, 1959, Masferrer had to abandon the island.

He fled on his yacht Ola Kun II, an old former US Coast Guard vessel with his family and over 20 followers on January 1, 1959, arriving in Key West, Florida.

He received asylum in the U.S. and settled in Miami.

Castro accused to Masferrer of stealing US$17 million (disputed), and requested to the US government the extradition of Rolando, back to Cuba.

Castro's request was denied.

In the United States, he befriended Mafia bosses such as Santo Trafficante, as well as union leader Jimmy Hoffa.

1975

He was killed by a car bomb, in Miami in 1975, aged 57.