Ana and the bombs that never exploded in Sauto.
The gnawed door creaks as if time were turning its knob. Perhaps not even four pairs of hands could reach the age of that house. Inside, a man with almost a century of life, without sight or hearing, was sitting in a worn armchair. Miguel Molina was his name.
He said that just before the triumph of the Revolution, the Sauto Theater was leased by Fernando Castro Garriú and that he, at that time, was its manager.
«Batista’s people wondered why the underground did not sprinkle live phosphorus there as they did in the Velasco cinema,» he recounts between spaces of time, with a lost look, perhaps remembering what those years were like living in the declared National Monument.
«They took me prisoner and took me to the headquarters.»
He pours into the conversation all the fear he felt at that time because, according to his words, the officer who held him, named Pilar Garcia, was one of the best known torturers in the city just at that time.
«Pilar García is called and runs out of the place. The other officer on duty stared at me and told me that if I was a «shit eater», I should go out the door and not even think of standing up».
In those four walls where he was kept immobilized, the truth never came out as to why clandestine actions were not carried out in the Sauto Theater.
The fact is that there, in the space destined for the administrator’s house, there lived a woman: Ana, José Smith Comas’ sister, and wife, at that time, of Miguel Molina.
Written by Daniela Candelario Montero, journalism student.
